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		<title>Paving the way for the factory dairy?</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4619</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cost of production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Deal Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmgate price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Price fluctuations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voluntary code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1000-cow mega-dairy near Welshpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alastair Driver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy UK director general Jim Begg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Factory dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Minister David Heath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Standards Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Watson Member of the Welsh Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU chief dairy adviser Robert Newbery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU dairy board chairman Mansel Raymond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pig farm in Foston]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. 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 &#8211; has asked Farming Minister David Heath to ‘call in’ the 15% of milk buyers failing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Dairy UK represent the interests of dairy farmers or the IDF?</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4611</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exporters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial speculators.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Dairy Federation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International traders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Begg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. 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 &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dairy farmers should see at least 35p/l as a stepping stone towards the true cost of production calculated for European Milk Board</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4603</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Deal Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers for Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmgate price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Price fluctuations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Milk Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Dairy Farmers milk auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Taylor FFA UK NI co-ordinator]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. . 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Holt-Martyn: it would be &#8220;criminal&#8221; for retailers not to return more of their gross margin down the supply chain to farmers</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4592</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 11:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cost of production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmgate price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Price fluctuations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers Weekly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global commodity markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Holt-Martyn senior consultant Dairy Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retailers' gross margin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supply chain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. 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. . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4.  Farmers for Action and the NFU</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4586</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers for Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dairy situation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Kathleen Calvert: Farmers for Action and WI member, and Fair Deal Food Council adviser, writes: &#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3. Farmers for Action and the NFU: another viewpoint</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4574</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Farmers for Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blockades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Julian Rose writes: &#160; Very interesting. I am a member of FFA and was of NFU. Blockades are &#8216;last resort&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2. NFU: Protest, yes – blockade &#8211; no</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4570</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Farmers for Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Price fluctuations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voluntary code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davod Handley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Kendall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1. Farmers For Action gives reasons for leaving SOS Dairy coalition</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4561</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjudicator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers for Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmgate price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voluntary code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy code of practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Handley (Farmers For Action )]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Milk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Kendall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stoneleigh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. Alistair Driver reported yesterday that &#8211; at a meeting at Stoneleigh on Tuesday &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry ultimatum: calling on the main milk processors and retailers to pay a fair price or lose their supplies</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4555</link>
		<comments>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4555#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmgate price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aled Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU Cymru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Wales dairy farmers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheese contracts: the next issue to be placed before the general public?</title>
		<link>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4550</link>
		<comments>http://fairdealfooduk.com/?p=4550#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Deal Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmgate price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Price fluctuations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Retail Consortium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Label imports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[. 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 [...]]]></description>
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