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Article: Would less really mean more?(Market edge: MILK--CHEESE--BUTTER--EGGS)(Tim Smith of Arla Foods Ingredients A.m.b.a.)(raw milk production)(Brief article)
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- April 29, 2006
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Farmers' leaders have rejected a suggestion by the boss of the UK's biggest dairy processor that the industry could be better off if it lost a billion litres worth of raw milk production.
Arla Foods UK chief executive Tim Smith made the observation at the official opening of the company's 18m [pounds sterling] dairy in Lockerbie this week. He told journalists that one billion litres might need to come out of the industry before supply and demand were realigned.
Smith's comments came at a time when increasing numbers of dairy farmers are leaving the industry, and after a year with one of the lowest levels of milk production on record. But farmers said ...