Erna Feldhofer is at the top of some 4000 "Milk rebels" - in a man's world.
HANS GMEINERSalzburg (SN). Styrian mountain farmer from Erna Feldhofer Birkfeld follows the sometimes loud Mühlviertler Ewald Grünzweil as head of the IG-Milch. Feldhofer is thus now at the top of some 4000 "Milk rebels" who in recent years, with demonstrations and delivery strike drew attention to the situation of dairy farmers and an "A fair milk" and the "Free Milk Austria" try to show alternatives. "I'm from the start," she says. "Finally, I will not hold that against me later by the three children have to have anything done about the decline of agriculture. "
The 40-year-old Feldhofer, which farms with her husband, a 40-cow operation with 300,000 kg year delivery right in Austria's agricultural micro-cosmos, the only woman in such a top position. In Europe it is one of two. "I have a colleague in Holland."
In the rough world of men IG-Milch, who was previously in the fight for better milk prices for dairy farmers to trade and politics sometimes inexorably, it brings new sounds. "I am a person in need of harmony," she says. "A man comes to radical, a woman does it with different words." Postscript: "I can also be prickly."
Feldhofer wants the IG milk, as its goals to continue. It is pushing for regulation of markets and stands up against the waiver of delivery quotas.
a milk delivery strike is currently not an issue for them. "I do not feel that we now need one." Instead, it wants to expand the information of the members and see the policy emphasis on the finger.
Thither of course they only have to find the right wire. After several violent skirmishes the relationship with the peaks of the Chamber of Agriculture and Farmers' Union is disturbed. "But I will come back to talk with them."
Coming into the foreground, they also want the projects "A fair milk" and "Free milk Austria", in whose founding the IG's milk served as inspiration. Since the "Fair Milk," which is available still for the price of 1.19 € per liter, at savings no longer belongs to the regular range, it is weakening.
With the "Free Milk Austria", however, who sold their milk on the open market, it is good. "320 farmers provide annually 44 million kilograms." Fact that it was the "free milk" around the farm milk price a secret makes defending them. "Whether the price is above or below the prices of dairies, one would .. Us break in any case "
only so much she says:" The price is compared to the dairies in the top third "
Salzburger Nachrichten - Business / 12/11/2010
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