It is a sector which mobilized very strongly last winter, during the first movement of anger among farmers: breeders will probably be on the front line once again from Monday November 18, the day announced by the FNSEA, the main union agricultural for the resumption of mobilization. France Bleu Normandie has chosen to spend the morning with Lucie Engerant, at the La Vache de Louvicamp farm in Mesnil-Mauger, in the Bray region, to make you live live with her the daily life of a breeder and the problems encountered in the sector.
“We start early in the morning, we start milking at 6 a.m., we finish late in the evening, it’s every day twice a day,” says Lucie Engerant, “and we're busy all day. There's always work to do with the cows, with their enclosure, and with the tractor too.” Each year, approximately 500,000 liters of milk leave its farm. 200,000 are processed on the farm and 300,000 sold to Danone, their main customer. But the purchase price still remains insufficient in the eyes of the breeder, even with recent increases: “It's a few cents, it's always good. But on the other hand, there is also the increase in the price of food, the increase in the price of wheat for example. The dairy farmer is always dependent of the price which is set by the dairy It is our customer who sets his price. It's quite strange, but that's how it is.
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