Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Loop hole for Norwegian milk farmers?


The other day, in Aftenposten, the biggest Norwegian newspaper, I read about Norwegian milk quotas.
One farmer can own maximum five milk quotas.
One farmer can produce maximum three milk quotas.
Three milk quotas equal 750 000 liters.

(My question: What is the farmer supposed to do with his two extra quotas? Perhaps this is the reason for the story you will read here? In that case, the Norwegian law seems strange...)

In order to produce 750 000 liters, the article said, you need around 120 milk cows.
In Norway the milk farmers can deliver their milk either to the Tine dairies or to the Q-dairies.

The Q-dairies pay a little more per liter.

In Norway the area of Jaeren on the southwest coast of Norway, south of Stavanger, is considered the most ideal area for milk production.

Lately Tine has informed that they do not get the amount of milk they are interested in from the Norwegian farmers.

(My thought: Perhaps the Tine dairies should pay at least the same amount of money as the Q-dairies do to their farmers?)

The story in the newspaper concerned a group of between five to ten Norwegian farmers who plan to send 30000 liters of milk a day to two dairies in Germany. With higher prices there than in Norway, and problems with the milk quotas in Norway, they have figured out this will be worth it. It should also be legal, the article said.


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