Dairy farmers must get MPs to back their call for fair price milk
UK - DAIRY farmers have been urged to persuade their MPs to join a Parliamentary campaign for a fair milk price.
6 March 2007
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A meeting in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, heard there was now a 37 per cent gap between UK prices and the top producers - in Italy and Finland.
advertisement"And we are all supposed to be on a level playing field," said Tim Brigstocke, outgoing chairman of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers.
An All Party Parliamentary group on dairying now has 130 MPs and peers signed up, including Tory leader David Cameron.
The group planned to call an adjournment debate in the House of Commons and Mr Brigstocke urged every milk producer to press their MP to join them.
He said the cost of production was now 21p a litre. It included family labour which was often ignored, even though 80 per cent of dairy farms are family-run.
Source: The Northern Echo
