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

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

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

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

Industry ultimatum: calling on the main milk processors and retailers to pay a fair price or lose their supplies

The Farmers Guardian reports that dairy farmers in North Wales at NFU Cymru meetings in Clwyd and Montgomeryshire are backing a demand for a fair price for milk.   As Milk Board chairman, Aled Jones said: “For far too long dairy farmers have suffered the lows in the market, never receiving the rewards when the [...]

Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Processors, Supermarkets

Cheese contracts: the next issue to be placed before the general public?

. Ian Potter remarks in his newsletter (12th April) that some current retail cheese contracts look “irresponsible” and fail to recognise the upward trend in farm gate milk prices. . He continues: On the front page of today’s Farmers Guardian the BRC have been allowed to get away with the comment “but farmers need to [...]

Posted by admin on April 15th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations

Country of Origin labelling will give people the power of choice

. Why did Arla UK invest in massive liquid processing capacity when there was already enough in this country?   Farmers for Action and WI member Kathleen Calvert writes:   Our British economy is in such a mess because large businesses are slowly asset stripping everything of value from our communities to make profits which are not then invested back [...]

Posted by admin on April 12th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Farmers for Action, Farmgate price, 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

Indian Food and trade policy analyst (MSc.Plant Breeding) quotes FFA/FDF dairy farmer

. Dr Devinder Sharma writes from Delhi:   It is being suggested that foreign direct investment in retail will set the house in order. It will end the exploitation of the farmers by the middlemen. Many fall for this argument. . But in the most recent cases of exploitation of dairy farmers by super markets [...]

Posted by admin on April 5th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, 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
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