Moving to drive out the SME food producer and bring in ‘agri-science’ as GM advocate MP George Freeman puts it

 . A farmer writes:   “We are being made to feel guilty, as if it is our complete responsibility to feed the world; yet we are a small island with a disproportionate number of people already to feed . . . It seems to me that behind this lies a huge operation and a greater danger of corruption”. [...]

Posted by admin on June 12th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Food producers, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets

Crisis: a delegation from FFA UK NI meets the Stormont Agriculture Committee

. Stormont Agriculture Committee . . Farmers for Action Steering Committee members William Taylor and Sean McAuley acted as spokespersons for FFA with the current cash and fodder crisis top of the agenda. . Steering committee representatives who attended the meeting and Joe Byrne, SDLP, Deputy Chairman of the Agriculture Committee (second left)   William [...]

Posted by admin on June 4th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, EU, CAP, Fair Deal Food, Farmers for Action, Farmgate price, Food producers, Price fluctuations, Supermarkets

Fair Deal Food: a formula giving the true cost of producing free range eggs

 . A formula for calculating the cost of free range egg production has now been agreed by the British Free Range Egg Producers’ Association (BFREPA), packing companies and other representatives of the United Kingdom egg sector, which has had fluctuating or low returns for years – see another producers’ website.. The agreed formula has been [...]

Posted by admin on June 4th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Food producers, NFU, Price fluctuations

Dairy Crest boss doesn’t address supermarkets’ unfairly high profit margins

. . This is Money opens with a tribute:  . Britain’s hard-working farmers have always been one of our country’s greatest assets. But things haven’t been easy in the farming industry lately. The terrible weather that has been around since last summer, coupled with the rising cost of animal feed, have forced farmers’ costs up. [...]

Posted by admin on June 3rd, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets, Voluntary code

Dairy farmers call for better value for their levy money

. Growing dissatisfaction with DairyCo, as expressed on this site recently, was voiced at a recent meeting. Addressing around 250 farmers in Market Drayton, FFA chairman David Handley called for more levy money to be used to develop and market British dairy produce. . FFA’s Paul Rowbottom, one of the organisers of a recent meeting [...]

Posted by admin on May 28th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Voluntary code

A fair price, covering cost of production plus, will ensure dairy profitability – not the export lottery

The Scottish Farmer reports that proposals from the European Parliament suggest – once quotas are fully wound up – the EU should retain a ‘crisis’ system to prevent price crashes caused by over-production. NFU Scotland’s understanding of the proposed system is that it would offer aid to producers who reduce production at times of over-supply, [...]

Posted by admin on May 24th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, EU, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Food producers, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets

Does government turn ‘a blind eye to corporate rule’ or aid and abet its food commodities masters?

. See a Lancashire dairy farmer’s warning on http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7242  

Posted by admin on May 24th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Processors, Supermarkets

Paving the way for the factory dairy?

. Alastair Driver of the Farmers Guardian reported earlier this month that the Dairy Coalition – NFU, NFU Cymru, NFU Scotland, the Tenant Farmers Association, the Women’s Food and Farming Union and the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers – has asked Farming Minister David Heath to ‘call in’ the 15% of milk buyers failing [...]

Posted by admin on May 17th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, NFU, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets, Voluntary code

Does Dairy UK represent the interests of dairy farmers or the IDF?

. The global agenda has put much of Britain’s large manufacturing, postal, water and energy utilities into foreign hands, multinationals are hoping to monopolise GM & non-GM seed sales – and agricultural land is targeted by investors who are ‘increasing their cut of the market’, as fewer farmers are now able to pay premium prices [...]

Posted by admin on May 14th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Processors, Supermarkets

Dairy farmers should see at least 35p/l as a stepping stone towards the true cost of production calculated for European Milk Board

. . Today’s statement by William Taylor, Farmers For Action UK NI co-ordinator: . “The next milk prices paid to Northern Ireland milk producers by NI processors will sort out which processors care about their producers and which intend to treat them as slaves. “With milk markets on the rise and United Dairy Farmers milk [...]

Posted by admin on May 8th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmers for Action, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations, Processors
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