DAIRY LEADERS EXPRESS SURPRISE AT BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED YEAR
May 1st, 2021
Over the past year, the European Union’s (EU) dairy industry has weathered two storms: the departure of Great Britain from the EU single market and customs union, during the unprecedented lockdown measures adopted to contain Covid-19, all while EU lawmakers haggle over a major shakeup of agricultural regulations. Nevertheless, EU dairy leaders say the impact on their sector has been far less severe than might have been expected.
Even when lockdown measures began to bite, “there was no real issue with the raw milk supply,” said Alexander Anton, secretary ...
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