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Article: Farming: Pay us a fair price or milk will run out, dairy farmers warn stores
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 4, 2009
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DAIRY farmers throughout Europe are continuing to press for a
realistic price for their milk. Last week's "dairy summit" in
Edinburgh gave an indication of how strongly producers feel on this
issue. Unfortunately all the major supermarkets, with the exception
of Morrison, declined to attend the meeting and explain their point
of view.
However, a range of organisations, including NFU Scotland and
Dairy Farmers of Scotland, have now written to retailers calling on
them to pay a decent price or risk a shortage of liquid milk before
long. Production in the UK is at a 37-year low and falling as an
increasing number of farmers exit the dairy sector.
Dairy farmers have three key demands: a ...