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Siek (dpa / lno) - For several days, farmers with tractors blocked the central warehouse of the large supermarket chains in the north because they feared excessive milk price reductions.
Now their actions have brought the first results.
Schleswig-Holstein's LsV chairwoman Uta von Schmidt-Kühl told the German press agency that the peasant movement “Land creates connection” (LsV) agreed on Wednesday night with Lidl management to hold talks until January 11 .
The agreement was preceded by several hours of tractor protests by dozens of farmers in front of the Lidl central warehouse in Siek (Stormarn district).
According to the police, around 70 tractors were on the road.
The movement had recently negotiated a similar agreement with Aldi in Lower Saxony.
Aldi and Lidl could not be reached at first.
In the talks that are now planned, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, the retail chains Rewe, Aldi, Lidl and Edeka, the farmers and the processing companies, i.e. dairies and slaughterhouses, are to be brought to one table.
"We insisted that the processing companies be brought to the table because we are now tired of the fact that the buck is always pushed onto the next one," says von Schmidt-Kühl.
According to the farmers' movement, rules should now be discussed together to ensure fair conditions for all members of the supply chain.
The farmers want, among other things, that price increases reach them and that fresh food is purchased as contractually agreed.
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The original trigger for the protests in Northern Germany were regular butter price negotiations between Aldi and the dairies.
The farmers feared that this would depress prices significantly more than usual.
Von Schmidt-Kühl was initially unable to say whether there would be further protests by the farmers before the possible talks at the beginning of January.
"Protests are not planned, but also not excluded."