TheDairySite Latest News: Spain
19 September 2012
Spain Looks to Improve Milk Quality AnalysisSPAIN - The Spanish government is looking to increase the number of milk quality control tests through an official campaign. ...
11 September 2012
Spanish Dairy Producers Take to the Streets in ProtestSPAIN - COAG (Coordinator of Farmers Organisations) is organising protests this week in the main milk producing regions to raise awareness of the plight of the dairy industry. ...
04 September 2012
Government Steps up to Support Dairy SectorSPAIN - The Spanish government has said it will not sit back and condone the disappearance of the Spanish dairy sector....
17 August 2012
Spain Looks to Rebalance Milk Supply ChainSPAIN - The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture is holding talks this week with the industry organisations to review the livestock sectors, and in particular the dairy sector....
06 August 2012
Urgent Measures Needed to Save Spanish LivestockSPAIN - The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) has called on the Ministry of Agriculture to hold an immediate meeting and come up with urgent measures to help Spanish livestock producers. The increase in production costs is so great that bankruptcy...
02 August 2012
Dairy Crisis Causing Farm ClosuresSPAIN - During the last year over five hundred milk-producing farms in Galicia have been hit by a severe economic crisis. Around 12 farms have been disappearing a week as a result of the crisis. Galicia now counts some 10,648 farms, three times less than...
20 July 2012
Unions Join Forces to Help Dairy ProducersSPAIN - Twelve dairy unions from Castile, Leon and Catalonia, have joined forces to create a first of a kind organisation representing over 500 cattle and 240 million litres of milk. ...
02 July 2012
New Bluetongue Vaccination Requirements ApprovedSPAIN - The Cabinet has approved a Royal Decree amending the current regulations for specific measures to combat and eradicate bluetongue....
Retailers, Processors Abuse Spanish Dairy ProducersSPAIN - The Small Farmers Union (UPA) has accused retailers and processors of abusing their power over dairy farmers, as farm gate milk prices fell further. ...
18 May 2012
Spanish Cattle Farm Numbers DeclineSPAIN - Last year, Spain recorded a further decline of three per cent in the number of cattle farms....
10 May 2012
Official Milk Recording Method SimplifiedSPAIN - The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA) has published in the Official Gazette a simplified methodology for the official control of milk yield in cattle, sheep and goats....
19 April 2012
Import Restrictions on Soy will Affect FarmersSPAIN - The Spanish government is discussing whether or not it should impose import restrictions on Argentinean products, in retaliation to an announcement by the Argentinean government that it will nationalise oil company YPF....
17 April 2012
Milk Quality Challenge DismissedSPAIN - A study by Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU) last year, found that the quality of many milk products varied. A challenge by the dairy sector in March 2012 has been dismissed by the courts, which states that the reputation of the dairy...
12 April 2012
Spain Asks EU to Extend Milk QuotasSPAIN - The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture is asking the European Union to extend milk quotas. Current plans are to abololish milk quotas in 2015....
05 April 2012
Could the Spanish Dairy Sector Collapse?ANALYSIS - This week, the Spanish Small Farmers Union (UPA) has said that the Spanish milk market is on the brink of a collapse. The union says that rising production costs are crippling farmers, and farmgate milk prices are falling....
Spanish Dairy Sector on Brink of CollapseSPAIN - The situation in the Spanish dairy sector is critical, with sky high production costs crippling producers. It is estimated that producers have lost one million Euros because of drought alone....
03 April 2012
Drought Pushes Feed Prices up 12 Per CentSPAIN - Feed prices have seen a dramatic rise in prices since January, up 12 per cent to 0.33 euro per kilo....
22 March 2012
Drought: Spain Calls for Advance on SubsidiesSPAIN - The Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Miguel Arias Canete has said that Spain will request an advance of EU aid to ease the financial burdens on farms dealing with drought....
16 March 2012
Dry Spell Takes Toll on Crops and LivestockSPAIN - The Spanish grain crop outlook for 2012-13 is at a very critical situation due to the driest winter ever recorded. While April and May rainfalls usually determine the size of the crop, this year’s dry conditions might have already taken a toll...
IX International Congress of Veterinary VirologySPAIN - Spain invites participation at the 9th International Congress of Veterinary Virology, to be held on the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the Complutense University in Madrid between 4 and 7 September 2012....
14 March 2012
First Case of Schmallenberg in SpainSPAIN - A malformed, aborted lamb with lesions has confirmed the first case of Schmallenberg virus on a farm in Spain....
New Challenges for Spanish Feed Sector SPAIN - Due to an extremely dry winter, the Spanish fodder industry is expected to face a few challenges, including lower availability of water for irrigation....
02 March 2012
Applications for Milk Quota Repurchase AgreementsSPAIN - The Government Gazette has published a royal decree regulating the management system of milk quota....
06 February 2012
Precautionary Measures for Schmallenberg VirusSPAIN - The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment held a meeting with the Heads of Veterinary Services of the Autonomous Communities and the Directorate General of Health in Agricultural Production, in which they analysed the Schmallenberg virus...
03 February 2012
Production Costs Undermine Milk Price RecoverySPAIN - Despite the slight recovery in prices, production costs undermine the profitability of dairy farms in Spain....
20 January 2012
Official Programme to Combat Bluetongue in Spain SPAIN - The Veterinary Health Alert Network (RASVE) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has published on its website the official programme to combat bluetongue disease, to be implemented in Spain during 2012....
13 January 2012
2011 - Poor Year For Spanish AgricultureSPAIN - 2011 was a year with more pain than glory for the Spanish livestock sector. Cuts in state aid, falls in agricultural income and increases in debt all led to the majority of livestock producers making a loss, says the Spanish Federation of Livestock...
18 October 2011
OIE: Bluetongue Reported In SpainSPAIN - An outbreak of Bluetongue has been reported to the OIE by Dr Lucio Ignacio Carbajo Goni , Subdirector General de Sanidad de la Producción Primaria, Dirección General de Recursos Agrícolas y Ganaderos, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural...
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