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After Belgium, French and German dairy farmers dumped hundreds of thousands of litres of milk in rivers and fields again on Saturday as they sought to intensify a week-old strike launched to protest against depressed dairy prices. The protesting farmers then crossed the bridge with 100 tractors towing milk tanks into Kehl where they sprayed 250-300 thousand litres of milk across open fields. Striking producers, who have been refusing to deliver milk in an attempt to pressure the European Union to overhaul dairy market regulation, poured milk into the river Rhine at the Europe Bridge which spans the border between France and Germany. You can see that there are French farmers and German farmers who are in the same hole with the same problems. And I think that from tomorrow it won't just be Germany and France, there will also be a strike in other European countries, said French milk producer Jean-Pierre Chrisman.
