Translation of "éleveur de chèvres " (French → English) :

In addition, the Commission proposes to set the support for sheep milk producers and she-goat breeders to € 16.8 per head.

Agriculture Mr. Peter Adams (Peterborough, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I rise to present yet another petition on behalf of beef, sheep, goat and bison farmers in my riding concerning the BSE crisis.

At the same time, handicrafts which only make cheese from ewe's and goat's milk would close, with the result that unemployed cheese-makers would join the unemployed farmers, reducing the production of unique Greek cheeses based on ewe's and goat's milk such as feta.

39. The mass culls caused considerable public indignation in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the EU; farmers, especially dairy farmers, cattle raisers, holders and raisers of sheep and goats and smallholders who kept and bred animals as a hobby, as well as most veterinarians and the non-agricultural rural business sector and society at large, which was increasingly organised in new special interest organisations, argued in favour of emergency or prophylactic vaccination, after which the animals could stay alive, instead of culls; the FMD crisis in the Netherlands and the public outcry received very considerable media coverage;

39. The mass culls caused considerable public indignation in the Netherlands; farmers, especially dairy farmers, cattle raisers, holders and raisers of sheep and goats and smallholders who kept and bred animals as a hobby, as well as most veterinarians and the non-agricultural rural business sector and society at large, which was increasingly organised in new special interest organisations, argued in favour of emergency or prophylactic vaccination, after which the animals could stay alive, instead of culls; the FMD crisis in the Netherlands and the public outcry received very considerable media coverage.

From Nexia Biotechnologies: Jeff Turner, President and CEO, Transgenic Animals, Farmer and Goat Breeder (Quebec).