On May 27, thousands of German farmers began a strike and boycotted deliveries of milk to protest the low cost of milk and their dwindling returns, which are rendering milk production untenable.

Cem Ozdemir, German Minister of Food and Agriculture, speaks during his visit the Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems shipyard. German producers are free to export pasteurized milk and milk products to China ...

Dairy farmers in Germany are unhappy with the prices they are getting for their product. On Tuesday, they began pouring out their milk rather than selling it to the dairies. German dairy farmers ...

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HAMBURG, June 5 (Reuters) - Thousands of German dairy farmers on Thursday staged a national day of demonstrations and extended to 10 days a milk delivery strike in protest at low milk prices which ...

A German company, Milchkristalle GmbH, claims a product called night milk can promote better and more restful sleep. Called nachtmilch kristalle, or "night milk crystals," it's a mixture of melatonin, ...

BERLIN Forget counting sheep milking cows at night may hold the key to helping insomniacs fall asleep. A German company has patented “nocturnal milk”, which it claims contains levels of the sleep ...

Shops in Germany say they are starting to run out of milk after days of protests by dairy farmers against what they say are unsustainably low prices. The German milk industry federation said that ...

German dairy farmers angry over low prices have sent at least 1,900 milk parcels to the European Commission. EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has urged them to stop, appealing in the ...

Small German dairy farms are in worse shape than ever. Profit margins have shrunk, agricultural banks are in trouble, EU policies create huge milk surpluses and a recent spike in dairy prices has ...