Farmers are the only ones in the dairy sector to suffer

Describing any situation as ‘critical’ is obviously a subjective exercise: what I deem to be an emergency might not meet your definition.

But no rational observer of the chaos and despair afflicting the EU’s dairy farmers at the moment could be in any doubt that is actually the only word applicable to the Farm Council held on March 14.

It’s important to note the distinction I made there: we say ‘EU’s dairy farmers’ as opposed to ‘EU’s dairy sector’ because that latter entity is doing very nicely, thank you.