1. Farmers For Action gives reasons for leaving SOS Dairy coalition

. Alistair Driver reported yesterday that – at a meeting at Stoneleigh on Tuesday – David Handley (Farmers For Action ) announced that FFA has pulled out of the dairy coalition, which was formed to fight for fairer prices during last summer’s SOS Dairy campaign. Mr Handley said the FFA committee had agonised about the [...]

Posted by admin on April 25th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Farmers for Action, Farmgate price, NFU, Voluntary code

If adjudicator Christine Tacon does not achieve a Fair Deal for food producers an Indian state offers Plan B

. Farmers who grow food for the country deserve to earn at least as much as the lowest salary-earning government servant . From a correspondence between FDF’s farmer Michael Hart in Cornwall and agricultural economist Devinder Sharma in Delhi we learn that, according to the National Sample Survey Organisation data for 2003-04, roughly 100 million [...]

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Fair Deal Food

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

Arable farmer MEP Phillip Bennion welcomes the appointment of an independent Groceries Code Adjudicator

  “The new system is designed to ensure a fairer deal for farmers and suppliers”   Last seen in dialogue at Andrew Hemmings’ farm, Phillip Bennion’s message is that farmers and suppliers now have someone fighting their corner against the big supermarkets.   Christine Tacon, who has wide experience in the food, retail and farming [...]

Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, EU, CAP, Fair Deal Food, Price fluctuations, Supermarkets

Stop press: adjudicator will have power to impose fines – Minister, “We have heard the views of the stakeholders”

. The ‘groceries adjudicator’, to be appointed next year, will be able to fine the country’s top chains if they use their dominant position to treat farmers and other suppliers unfairly. The maximum fine will be set on the recommendation of the first adjudicator, within six months of new legislation being passed. It was proposed [...]

Posted by admin on December 4th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Fair Deal Award presented to MP Andrew George at the Annual Conference of the Family Farmers’ Association

  A Fair Deal award was presented to Andrew George MP during the FFA’s annual October conference organised by livestock farmer Pippa Woods. On the Westminster committee room Cornish farmer, Fair Deal Council member and video-maker Michael Hart, presented the granite based award made by Sculpture Designer, a co-operative of lead crystal craftsmen formed when [...]

Posted by admin on November 27th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Cost of production, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Awards, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, FDF Council, Groceries Supply Code of Practice

A call for the establishment of an independent European Food Trading Agency to act as an ombudsman and police the food sector

  Copa-Cogeca has 76 member organisations, Copa representing over 13 million farmers and their families whilst Cogeca represents the interests of 38,000 agricultural cooperatives. The Fresh Produce Journal reports that COPA is calling for the establishment of an independent European Food Trading Agency to act as an ombudsman and police the food sector. Said to [...]

Posted by admin on November 24th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, EU, CAP, Price fluctuations, Supermarkets

Will government once more bow to the supermarket lobby?

The House of Commons business committee recommended that the adjudicator should have the power to award fines, but this has been left out of the bill     In October, activists from the Cross-cutting Group set up by MP Andrew George Fair Deal Food awardee, staged a demonstration at the Department for Business, Innovation and [...]

Posted by admin on November 20th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Groceries Supply Code of Practice, Supermarkets

Calls for watchdog to fine UK supermarkets

The Fresh Produce Journal reports that activists from the Cross-cutting Group set up by MP Andrew George Fair Deal Food awardee, staged a demonstration at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills last Wednesday highlighting the need for the government to ensure that its new supermarket watchdog, the Groceries Code Adjudicator, has the power to [...]

Posted by admin on October 25th, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Awards

The bottom line is dairy farmers and processors are paying for cheap milk, for immoral activity and wanton greed

Lord Morris of Aberavon, a former Secretary of State for Wales has expressed serious concerns for the survival of the UK dairy industry, making several points: . “I fear the dairy industry is withering on the vine because it is operating on an unfair playing field.”  “The major supermarkets hold the industry in their grip [...]

Posted by admin on October 22nd, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Adjudicator, Cost of production, Supermarkets
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