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Farmers are not so much crying over spilt milk as weeping about the current production coming from their cows and the prices they are getting for it.

Up to 5,600 people could be employed in the Czech wind energy sector by the year 2050, according to a study by the Seven consultancy. According to the daily e15.cz, which published the results of the study, that prediction could be fulfilled if the state starts supporting wind energy and would offer support to the tune of one billion crowns in subsidies each year.

Prague was one of the enthusiastic backers of what was once describes as the most ambitious trade deal ever – TTIP or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Not a vociferous backer certainly, but always there when needed.

Electronic cash registers are a flagship policy of ANO leader and finance minister Andrej Babiš and he and his ministry are now in the throes of trying to ensure that the introduction of the controversial appliances to clampdown on tax dodgers goes smoothly.

Czech power distributor Energo Pro is set to build a new hydro power plant with a dam in the Erzurum province in north eastern Turkey. The overall cost of the project is expected to reach 240 million US dollars, which is nearly 6 billion crowns. The agreement was signed on Friday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the company stated in a press release.

Exhibition Grounds, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported on Thursday. The reconstruction of Výstaviště, which is used for fairs, exhibitions, concerts and other activities, is expected to cost hundreds of millions of crowns. It should begin with a completion of the Art Deco Industrial Palace, which was partially destroyed by fire in October 2008.

According to Agriculture Minister Marian Jurečka, less than 50 percent of red meat in domestic supermarkets is of Czech origin. In the future, he made has clear, he will be aiming for the numbers to improve. One good sign? Chains based in the Czech Republic are not against taking more from local producers.

A consortium of firms, headed by Czech company VHS (Vodohospodářské stavby), has won the contract to repair and broaden a roughly seven kilometre stretch of the country’s most frequented highway, the D1 between Prague and Brno. The section of road is near Jihlava and Velký Beranov.

The concept of a short paternity leave, which has been debated on the Czech political scene since 2010, looks close to being realized. The proposal, approved by the government in May of this year, has divided the Cabinet and united old-time rivals.

Vítkovice Power Engineering, one of the key daughter companies of the engineering conglomerate Vítkovice, has filed for “reorganization“ bankruptcy. The company reportedly owes close to two billion crowns to over 700 creditors. The regional court in Ostrava, which was due to deal with a proposal for bankruptcy against the firm by one of its biggest creditors, Westag Invest, on Friday has cancelled the hearing.