The revision of the calculation of the price of milk paid by the cooperative is scolding the breeders, but also its competitors.
If it does not overflow, the milk begins to heat up at Sodiaal’s producers. Thursday, around thirty of its breeders gave voice to Quimper to denounce the pricing strategy adopted by the owner of Candia and Entremont. At issue: the announcement in mid-June by the cooperative, which collects 20% of French milk, to abandon from the third quarter the formula it has used since 2018 to calculate the price granted to its dairy producers.
Instead, Sodiaal relied on “usual detailed market indicators” he said in a letter to his producers. This causes breeders to lose a form of price security, as they have less visibility. With the new system, they will receive an average of 420 euros for 1000 liters of milk, from July to September. It is certainly 20% more than what its members received a year earlier. Despite everything, the pill is difficult to pass. Firstly because breeders are strongly affected by
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