Enkoeping, Sweden - Already feeling a Europe-wide price squeeze, Sweden's dairy farmers are also being cornered by dwindling milk consumption and legal tussles with boastful non-dairy competitors.
Today the 100 cattle on Peter Engvall's snow-covered farm are no longer the cash cows they used to be.
"It's almost never enough to pay the bills," he told AFP on a freezing winter day north-west of the capital Stockholm.