On Wednesday, Belgian farmers driving about 300 hundred tractors, many pulling honey wagons, sprayed 790,000 gallons of fresh milk onto their fields as they expressed their fury over low milk prices they say are bankrupting them. Milk farmers' groups says world prices have sunk so much they are having to sell milk at half their production costs, leaving more and more farmers unable to pay their bills. The dumped milk represented about one day's production in the region.
Belgian farm leader Erwin Schoepges said a farm revolt is needed. The crisis has driven many EU farmers into a milk strike, with thousands refusing to deliver milk to the industrial dairy conglomerates that produce anything from skimmed milk to processed cheese. As many as half the milk framers in some areas were refusing to deliver their milk and the first shortages could hit some supermarkets as early as next week.
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