Remundo wrote: And this is partly how German pigs are breaking prices on meat because they have additional income via biomethanation stations. Where French farmers are sometimes embarrassed by their manure and manure ...
Absolutely:
a) at the moment, the big German farms do not make a margin on pork [they also undergo the collapse of some markets - Russia - and the competition], but they do not make a lot of them on the methane (or the energy) resulting of their manure ...
b) in short, where in France we are fighting against "ecological constraints", in Germany, we value it and we make, in difficult times, the margin on it.
NB: this is exactly what happens to us at the level of the anaerobic digestion unit that I report on forum from time to time: currently, no margin on young bulls, despite "prowess" on rations to reduce costs, but "very correct" income - let's put it that way! - on anaerobic digestion; the young bull becomes a producer of manure, recoverable in energy with a quite correct margin! Meat is ... a by-product of "energy farming"!
NB 2: 20 years ago, the CAP guaranteed agricultural prices (after the stormy night negotiations in Brussels) ... Today, this is no longer the case. Liberalization requires, it is the "free" market that takes precedence. And in this game, the Danes, Germans, Spaniards are better placed! The rare "products" that still have a regulated, fixed price is ... energy! I do not understand that there is not more enthusiasm on the side of French farmers. They should be the first "green" - at least when it comes to "energy" plans! [it is true that it is still necessary to have an investment capacity, which, given the debt, is no longer always the case!].