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

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 | No Comments Posted in Domestic fair trade, Processors, Supermarkets

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

4. Farmers for Action and the NFU

  Kathleen Calvert: Farmers for Action and WI member, and Fair Deal Food Council adviser, writes:   I have followed what is a very political dairy situation actively since 2007, avidly observing the performance of both the NFU and FFA. How many times have we seen the NFU huff and puff and make angry declarations [...]

Posted by admin on April 26th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Farmers for Action, NFU, Processors, Supermarkets

3. Farmers for Action and the NFU: another viewpoint

  Julian Rose writes:   Very interesting. I am a member of FFA and was of NFU. Blockades are ‘last resort’ policies. They are usually effective in achieving their goal. It is necessary to use such tactics when issues of vital concern to a significant number of people are being ignored and/or deliberately blocked. Exponents [...]

Posted by admin on April 25th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Farmers for Action, NFU, 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

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

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
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