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Article: Farmers welcome milk price rise
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 11, 2002
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THREE of the biggest supermarkets yesterday reacted to dairy
farmers' demands for higher prices by putting up the cost of milk by
1p a pint. The increases will mean the price shoppers pay for two
pints of milk going up from 54p to 56p, four pints from 93p to 98p,
and six pints from GBP 1.37 to GBP 1.44.
Farmers' leaders have been arguing for a farm-gate increase
because the cost of producing a litre of milk is 19p and the average
price they get is about 16p.
Processors - who buy from farmers and pasteurise and package for
retailers - and the supermarkets say the main reasons for the low
price are farmers producing too much ...
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