Question 15558 — breeding

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Mrs. Colette Capdevielle draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Sovereignty to the dairy crisis that we are going through. Producers have experienced a severe drop in milk prices since January (loss of nearly 100 euros per 1,000 liters in one year), while production costs are increasing, particularly RNG prices. The reason for this sharp decline is clear: a global and particularly European overproduction. Even though the dairy herd is decreasing, milk production in European countries is increasing thanks to the intensification of production and productivity per cow: +5% of milk collected in Europe in 2025 compared to 2024. Faced with this, demand is not keeping up and Europe once again finds itself in a context of dairy overproduction. The global economy follows the same dynamic with +6.5 billion liters of milk collected at the start of 2026 compared to the previous year, in the 5 major exporting zones (USA, New Zealand, Australia, European Union and Argentina). In France, cooperatives and manufacturers have implemented significant reductions in the price of milk paid to producers. Prices are falling even more quickly in other European countries (300 euros/1000L in Belgium at LDA). On the occasion of Agriculture Council of the European Union of March 30, 2026, Belgium, supported by five other member states, put the dairy crisis on the agenda. These countries requested the activation of emergency measures, including a voluntary reduction in production financed by the European crisis reserve, as well as an increase in the intervention price. Volume regulation and management are inseparable from price protection and therefore peasant income. However, there are fears that voluntary regulation will not be sufficient to stem the decline in milk production. One proposal would be a mandatory reduction, so that each producer returns to their 2024 production level (excluding organic farming and quality sectors). Faced with a worsening crisis, she wants to know the solutions that the Government intends to put in place to protect dairy producers in the context of the Agricultural Council of the European Union in May 2026.

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