Tractors Roll Toward Brussels as 4,000 Farmers Plan EU Rally
- European ministers meeting Monday to discuss falling prices
- Dairy, meat, vegetable farmers want earlier EU payments
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Thousands of farmers are heading toward Brussels before a meeting next week of European ministers set to discuss plunging prices for milk, meat, fruit and vegetables.
About 4,000 farmers will gather along with hundreds of tractors on Monday as ministers debate potential agriculture support measures, said Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of Brussels-based farm lobby Copa-Cogeca. A Russian ban on many European Union food exports, slowing demand from China and oversupply of milk and pork products mean many farmers are losing money and may go out of business, he said.