Over 48,000 EU farmers to reduce milk production

More than 48,000 milk farmers from across the EU have applied for support from the EU. This is according to the latest figures from the European Commission. Farmers could apply for this scheme, agreeing to voluntarily reduce their production of milk by nearly 861,000 t in the last quarter of 2016 and in January 2017. Also interesting: Irish dairy farmers don’t stop milking With final figures received today from Member States for the second reduction period (November 2016 to January 2017), w