• Danish Dairy Board joins new food and agriculture organisation
  Final plan of affiliation expected before summer.
   
  
• 4,497,470,537 kg milk - and no superlevy
  Utilising 99.95 pct. of the 4.5 billion kg national milk quota, the Danish milk producers only just evaded superlevy for the past year.
   
  
• Danish quota price sets new record
  Danish dairy farmers pay approx. DKK 4.64 (EUR 0.62) per kg to expand production.
   
  
• Danish milk producers to pay DKK 60 million in superlevy
  On average every third Danish milk producer must pay a superlevy of DKK 37,600, probably caused by expensive milk quotas on short-term depreciation combined with overweening confidence, agricultural advisors suggest.
   
  
• Milk quota price slumped
  The result of the Danish February quota exchange was a market clearing price of DKK 3.95 per kg.
   
  
• February quota exchange: Significant price fall
  More moderate prices expected from now on.
   
  
• Denmark loses in feta dispute
  On this 25 October 2005 the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg has pronounced its ruling in the latest of a series of feta cases. Denmark and Germany have lost the case.
   
  
• August quota exchange - highest price ever
  The preliminary calculations indicate a market clearing price of EUR 0.61/kg at a fat percentage of 4.36 - the highest price ever at any quota exchange.
   
  
• Remarkable May quota exchange
  The first of this year's four exchanges saw the smallest amount of quota ever transferred.
   
  
• Record low quota overrun in Denmark
  Danish milk producers seem to master utilisation of quotas completely this year.
   
  
• May 2004 quota exchange
  At the recent quota exchange the milk quota price ended at the highest price ever recorded.
   
  

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