Socio-Economics

Develop farm-level solutions and strategies
Dairy farmers within the EU have been exposed to both the positives and the negatives of price volatility since 2007. Further reform of the CAP and the abolition of milk quotas brings further changes and potentially significant shifts in relative competitiveness between regions. Increased price volatility is bringing greater financial risks which will need to be managed.
Dairy farmers need new tools and strategies inside the farm gate (as well as at a policy and market levels) if they are going to manage the effects that extreme volatility can have on the business. The objective of this theme is to increase the socio-economic resilience of dairy production systems across diverse regions of the EU. In particular, EuroDairy will seek to develop farm-level solutions and strategies to deal with market volatility.
Within the EuroDairy network, many activities are organised on this ‘accelerator of (ex)change’ in the dairy sector. Here an overview of everything you’ve missed so far!
Operational Groups
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Milk Trading Company (MTC)
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Smart Weeding, Organic Feeding
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VEGCAT
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SMARTFEED - Smart measurements in cattle feeding and health [ÄLYREHU]
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Hauts de France
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Résilience Lait Normandie
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EuroDairy – Rhône-Alpes
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Sustainable Innovations in Agricultural Construction
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Sustainable N efficient GMO-free feeding on dairy farms in Schleswig-Holstein
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Organic, 100-400 cows
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Organic and non organic, 40-140 cows, milking robots
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Big dairy farms, about 400 cows
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Robot Milking
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Dairy lean management
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Livestock effluents: strategic approach towards agronomic and energetic valorization of flows in the farming activity
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Happy milk, a decision support system to improve the efficiency of dairy farms in the Parmigiano-Reggiano district
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Improvement of forage systems in support of the production of pdo Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese "Product of the Mountain" in the valleys of the Apennine area of Tassobbio river
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Economic and environmental metabolic model as a tool for future sustainable dairy farms for Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
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FreeWalk housing systems for dairy cows
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Young Stock Management (with emphasis on the Newborn Calf & Colostrum Management)
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Implementation of Genomic Selection in small dairy cattle populations
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Entrepreneurship with vision - methods and tools for supporting farmers in making strategic choices