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

2. NFU: Protest, yes – blockade – no

. Our NFU link sent the following statement and adds: As you can see below the issue for us is whether the protest is actually a blockade – we can’t and won’t support blockades – but we’ve lead many protests in the past and when the time is right will do so again. To All [...]

Posted by admin on April 25th, 2013 | 13 Comments Posted in Farmers for Action, NFU, Price fluctuations, Processors, Supermarkets, Voluntary code

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

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

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

FFA: Tesco has some way to go before reaching the European Milk Board accountancy cost of milk production of 41p/l

. . Before Christine Tacon is fully in post and able to receive reports, Farmers For Action have lodged a complaint with Advertising Standards Authorities about a Tesco advertisement ‘shoring up’ the horse meat scandal. . FFA are not going to allow Tesco to consistently mislead UK consumers, UK farmers’ customers, into believing that: . [...]

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

Dairy Industry in need of a plan – farming organisations have failed to attain a fairer price

. Dairy Farmers of Scotland chairman, Iain Smith, writes: . “We currently have an industry in limbo.  Constantly pushing forward yet falling further and further behind. The UK dairy industry will continue to flounder unless a radical shake up of the current imbalance of power is legislated as a matter of urgency. “For grass roots [...]

Posted by admin on February 13th, 2013 | 2 Comments Posted in Domestic fair trade, Price fluctuations, Processors

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
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