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 | No Comments Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, NFU, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets, Voluntary code

Nick Holt-Martyn: it would be “criminal” for retailers not to return more of their gross margin down the supply chain to farmers

. In the Farmers Weekly, Gemma Wainwright reports that dairy processors need to pay at least 35p/litre to secure milk supplies. Although UK farmgate milk prices have recently risen on the back of improved global commodity markets, further increases are needed to offset higher production costs, which have now reach an average of 34p/litre. . [...]

Posted by admin on May 1st, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets

Dairy Farmers Demand A Fair Milk Price: HMG petition

. . e-petition . Dairy Farmers Demand A Fair Milk Price . Responsible department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs . I am a 42 year old dairy farmer producing milk in the UK. I have a wife, three-year-old son and a team of staff who depend on me to pay their wages. This [...]

Posted by admin on April 11th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets

Advice from Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson

  Owen Paterson’s admission in the Financial Times: “Escalating costs for feed, for example, mean it is more expensive for farmers to produce milk, but retailers and processors are loath to raise prices to consumers or see their own profit margins squeezed”.   Not addressed by requiring retailers and processors to give a fair price [...]

Posted by admin on April 4th, 2013 | 1 Comment Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Processors, Supermarkets

Retailer aligned milk contracts – good or bad?

Farmers for Action and Women’s Institute member (and Fair Deal Council adviser), Kathleen Calvert, says retailer-aligned contracts have not served a useful purpose but Cumbrian farmer Robert Morris-Eyton disagrees. . Kathleen Calvert writes: Co-operative Farms, the only retail owned farms and once Europe’s largest milk producer of more than 30 million litres, sold its cows [...]

Posted by admin on March 19th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Farmers for Action, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations, Supermarkets

Some dissatisfaction with DairyCo’s results and data

Two weeks after publishing a levy-paying dairy farmer’s concerns about DairyCo’s activities and earlier the charge that DC is failing to address problems of non-aligned producers, Ian Potter asked questions on two particular points at the recent DairyCo Outlook Conference in London:   1) The prediction that in the coming milk year starting 1st April [...]

Posted by admin on March 10th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price

A possible game changer for Indian agriculture is announced: as Fairtrade week approaches, will the British government enable fair trade for the country’s food producers?

. . A friend and colleague in New Delhi, Devinder Sharma, sent an email with significant news recorded on his blog, Ground Reality. Following his six-year campaign, Karnataka state has set up a Farmers Income Commission, terms and conditions have yet to be formulated. . Noted agricultural scientist Dr M S Swaminathan has thanked him, [...]

Posted by admin on February 18th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, EU, CAP, Fair Deal Food, Processors, Supermarkets

Dairy farmer and Green Party member Henry Gent: ‘It’s a scandal how producers can be paid less than it costs to produce something’

. Extract   In July the Green Party warned that the current crisis in dairy farming is just the latest manifestation of a wider crisis in our food industry that has left our food supply extremely vulnerable and raises the spectre of severe food price rises:   “Our food production systems are now seen as [...]

Posted by admin on January 31st, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price

FFE proposes EU legislation: minimum requirement, cost of production payment plus inflation-linked margin for produce

. Fairness for Farmers in Europe  JANUARY PRESS RELEASE 222,600 Farming Jobs minimum for UK . If a revolutionary CAP proposal put forward by Fairness for Farmers in Europe (FFE), a federation of farm organisations across the UK and Ireland, is implemented post 2013 by the EU, 104,800 farming jobs minimum in England, 222,600 farming [...]

Posted by admin on January 14th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, EU, CAP, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Supermarkets

An uncertain future for the dairy industry in 2013

On January 1st, Farming Today’s Anna Hill asked what 2013 might hold for the dairy industry following 2012’s blockades, negotiations and boycotts. Her use of language betrayed her stance as she described farmers mobilising to fight for what they saw as a fair price for milk and later spoke of protests fizzling out. David Handley [...]

Posted by admin on January 3rd, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Farmers for Action, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations
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