Frustration continues after milk Plan – Helsingborgs Dagblad

– There is little about creating a “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” said Bucht while Arla announced that they lower the milk price paid to farmers by nearly 9 cents per kilogram.

Intense competition from world market and other EU countries have tightened position of the Swedish farmers.

With the meeting were, among others, Palle Borgström, chairman of the Federation of Swedish Farmers Milk and Stefan Farm, Chairman Sweden’s dairy farmers. Between the lines creeping rush and demands for action forward.

– The courtyards are bleeding it really, when it comes to something is happening here and now. What I know is that we must get monetary mass cents at the farm level, says Stefan Farm that tells the diesel tax, electricity costs and compensation for grazing requirements.

– I am just as concerned as Stefan of the emergency situation and to many of the measures in the action plan are things that have a bearing on the long term, but we need improvements in the weeks and months, says Palle Borgström that simultaneously says you have to be a realist, policy changes take time.

Sven-Erik Bucht says that costs are important.

– But tax cuts are not the solution to everything, it takes a lot of other things too, not least in the advice we betting on. Profitability varies very much, he said.

Countryside Minister promises to a program for government loan guarantees to farmers will be in place shortly. And he’s willing to fold up to ten million in a counseling program provided that the industry puts as much.

Jill Smith, a dairy farmer in Skåne Hörby, thinks that the state should step in and secure part of the milk price paid to the farmer . And she notes that the increase in employer contributions for young workers, who are raised in August, will worsen the economy.

She does not a lot of effort as promised on advisory services and government loan guarantees. Time goes by and more and more farmers spend.

– I can not see what advice and such would make the difference, we are poor entrepreneurs or? I think you look down on us a little nearly, we could nothing about the economy, we could not hold on, says Jill Smith.