Guhl asks for attitude adjustment in Germany

Peter Guhl, the CEO of MEG Milch Board in Germany, finds it difficult to see something positive in the current situation on the milk market. And he wants a change in attitudes. “The pressure from the dairy industry to just leave everything the old way is enormous,” he notes.

He hopes that the German Farmers’ Association will abandon its hard-line attitude:

“The base (read: the dairy farmers) has had enough of neoliberal market drivel of the association top and is rebelling. The crisis has opened the door for changes wide open. We need these changes, but we must now actively demand them. A ‘Still the same’ is not acceptable,” Guhl says.

But so far the crisis is much the same. In Germany, the milk price average is now as low as €0.02578 and often does not cover the costs for milk production. There is a strong north-south division. The milk price ranges from a high paid in Bavaria of 28.07 eurocents, down to Schleswig-Holstein’s 23.02 eurocents.