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Europe abandons milk quotas

March 30, 2015

For years, Europe controlled the amount of milk produced by member states though a quota system.

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That scheme is now expiring, and it could spell hard times ahead for Europe's farmers, as industrial dairies flood the market wtih cheap milk.