Fischer Boel: Food prices out of touch with the reality for farmers

FOOD prices seem rather out of touch with the reality at the end of the food chain, European Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has noted.

In her web-blog, she said the belief that farmers get lots of money for their products is clearly not the case at the moment. “But I can understand how people, whose main association with the word milk price is that of a litre of milk in the supermarket, would get such an idea.”

Ms Fischer Boel said every time she goes back to Denmark she is stunned by the price of bread at the local bakery and at the high food prices in general. “And if we take a quick glance at the rest of Europe, prices may not be as elevated as in Denmark, but they still seem rather out of touch with reality at the other end of the food chain.”