The comprehensive dumping of the European Union's dairy produce from 1996 to 2002
The evaluation of subsidies to feedstuffs consumed by the EU-15's dairy cows (DC) is based on different approaches that we attempt to match up, missing comprehensive and specific data on total feedstuffs consumed and their distribution among the fed animals and types of feeds: farm roughages (grass and hay), silage maize, compound feeds sold by the compound feed industry, cereals self-consumed on the farm, purchases of specific protein and energy rich feeds to complement the self-consumed cereals, of which oilseeds meals (mostly soybean meal but also pulses and dry fodder) and co-products of the food industry (mainly bran but also other cereals residues, sugar beet residues, etc.). These estimates rest on some assumptions which are generally specified, so that the numbers after the dot, maintained to avoid multiplying the approximations, should not be considered as accurate. They rely also on estimates already made in previous papers: "Feed subsidies to EU and US exported poultry and pig meats" of January 10, 2006, "The green box a black box which hides the gold box" of December 9, 2005 and "The empty promise and perilous game of the European Commission to slash its agricultural supports" of November 3, 2005 (these papers can be downloaded from Solidarit