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More grief for dairy farmers – this article tells us

The UK dairy industry desperately needs the support of all end-users of milk – from retailers’ right through to coffee shops, hotels and wholesalers – as we suffer another raft of farmgate milk price cuts, the NFU dairy board said today.

While the global dairy industry has seen an imbalance in supply and demand, the majority of milk produced in the UK is processed and consumed domestically. This should offer some security for our farmers, but we have seen farmgate prices at cripplingly low levels over the past 12 months, and the latest raft of cuts is more than most farmers can bear for any length of time.

Farmers are concerned about the heavy discounting of milk at retail, as it devalues the product and could reduce the sustainability of the whole supply chain.