Nationwide, food and cereal prices rose 1.6 percent.
As a result, cereal prices rose to record levels while livestock prices and wages fell, reducing purchasing power across the region.
The drought has also decimated livestock, while cereal prices have soared.
High cereal prices were not at all "extraordinary" in the years of the French wars from 1793 to 1815.
We all know that cereal prices have increased dramatically, and we know the reasons why.
It is not even on cereal prices but on food prices.
It is a known fact that in farming, cereal prices affect approximately 80% of the price of animal feed.
The first one concerns the problem of cereal prices and intervention stocks.
The Commission needs to adopt measures to calm cereal prices to prevent the market from being affected by their excessive volatility.
In fact I think the proposals to reduce cereal prices could also help the recovery of the pigmeat sector.