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

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

Financial Times letter sings our song

. Johnny Rizq, Director, GBRW Consulting, writes:   “The supermarkets, which sit at the top of the supply pyramid, should take responsibility for promoting (developing long-term relationships of trust and mutual co-operation with single suppliers) and not treating their suppliers as disposable.   “Yes, it might push up their costs slightly in the short term, [...]

Posted by admin on March 8th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Fair Deal Food, Supermarkets

Good sense from the MP for Brighton Pavilion

  . Quote of the week . From ‘Look to the Local: a better agriculture is possible’: “On the surface it would seem that paying farmers an adequate price for their milk is bound to result in increased prices for the consumer. “This need not be the case, as money can be reallocated to farmers [...]

Posted by admin on March 1st, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Farmgate price, Supermarkets

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

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

A downward spiral for lamb and pig farmers?

. Though the dire returns to dairy farmers since 1997 have dominated the news recently, it must be remembered that Fair Deal Food advocates a fair price which covers production costs and overheads in all sectors – fruit, arable crops, dairy produce, vegetables and meat. . We now turn to the continued downturn in the [...]

Posted by admin on January 19th, 2013 | Comments Off Posted in Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Price fluctuations, Supermarkets

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

A doorstep deliverer who buys direct from the farm and pays a fair price writes to this website:

  I really do not know what the future holds, but in my opinion the supermarkets have far too much control over the supply chain.   Milk like all commodities becomes cheaper the more you purchase. This always gives the biggest suppliers the greatest competitive advantage, but that’s capitalism! We are at the bottom end [...]

Posted by admin on January 7th, 2013 | 1 Comment Posted in Domestic fair trade, Fair Deal Food, Farmgate price, Supermarkets
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