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Article: Your LETTERS: Farmers hit by EU and superstores.(Letters)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2004
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Byline: Elwyn Williams
ONCE again the Welsh farmers are being subjected to increased costs to run their farms. Yet prices for their products have not increased whatsoever.
I checked my records recently and saw July 1994 prices for a 30-kilo lamb gave me pounds 27 and July 2004 the same position - a 30-kilo lamb only getting pounds 27.
Dairy farmers are even worse off. 1994 saw such farmers getting 45p a litre and now, thanks to the machinations of supermarkets selling milk as their ``loss item'', farmers get only 19p a litre while it costs 18p to produce. This situation generally, for all types of farmers, is typical. No farmer in wales is ...