Fair Deal Campaign
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Recent Posts
- Paving the way for the factory dairy?
- Does Dairy UK represent the interests of dairy farmers or the IDF?
- Dairy farmers should see at least 35p/l as a stepping stone towards the true cost of production calculated for European Milk Board
- Nick Holt-Martyn: it would be “criminal” for retailers not to return more of their gross margin down the supply chain to farmers
- 4. Farmers for Action and the NFU
Fair Deal Council Members
Letters to the press
- British dairy industry in danger: Ian O’Reilly 2011
- Cut price milk? Hardly Fair Trade: Kathleen Calvert, 2011
- Dairy farming problems hit jobs: Dugdale Nutrition
- Electronic tagging of sheep: John Wilson
- Fair retail margin & formula needed to establish minimum price: Kathleen Calvert
- Fair trade for British food producers: B. Panvel
- A refusal to buy cheap milk may now be the only answer: Kathleen Calvert
- The level of discounting in supermarkets is crippling this industry: Ian O’Reilly
- Why farming needs subsidies: Sir Eric Howells
- Why shouldn’t the Fairtrade principle be applied to all food producers? B. Panvel
Fair Deal Food Campaign
Will poor milk auction results lead to producer member resignations?
. . In today’s press release FFA UK’s Northern Ireland coordinator, William Taylor, predicts that the farmers co-operative, United Dairy Farmers, will see a crisis-led flood of resignations from its farmer members after last week’s milk auction results were published. From information gathered by FFA they believe that the auction could have safely hit 30p per [...]
Posted in Farmers for Action, Farmgate price
We can’t afford to feed you any more on current farmgate prices!
Northern Ireland’s Farmers For Action were out in force last Thursday night, picketing an ASDA store in Strabane, Co Tyrone in support of better milk prices. They have been receiving on average two pence per litre less than their GB counterparts since the spring. FFA NI co-ordinator William Taylor, stated: “FFA are telling [...]
The stress of unfair trade is making agriculture the most unsafe industry
PRESS RELEASE – 12th March 2012 . Farmers For Action Northern Ireland recently met representatives from the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, HSENI, to discuss the recent serious accident statistics in relation to agriculture in Northern Ireland. . Left to right: John Spiers and Malcolm Downey of HSENI after meeting with FFA [...]