EU scraps automatic dairy intervention

Automatic intervention buying-in of skim milk powder (SMP) was ruled out at last Monday’s EU Council of Agriculture Ministers.

EU scraps automatic dairy intervention
Thu, 01 Feb, 2018 - 00:00

Automatic intervention buying-in of skim milk powder (SMP) was ruled out at last Monday’s EU Council of Agriculture Ministers, writes Stephen Cadogan.

The council decided to set the quantitative limitation for buying-in skimmed milk powder at a fixed price at zero tonnes for 2018.

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