Dairy Farmers Threaten to Blockade Distributors
Posted on: Saturday, 6 August 2005, 09:00 CDT
DAIRY farmers in Scotland have warned that unless milk processors increase farm-gate prices they could mount a 24-hour blockade at distribution depots next week.
A national milk dumping campaign, which, with 100 per cent support would devastate supermarket sales, has also been threatened. The warnings came after a six-hour blockade at nine depots in the west of Scotland on Thursday.
Dairy farmers - now an estimated 1,400 in Scotland, down 700 in five years - have held a series of protests and blockades over the past two years in a quest for price increases.
Processors, with Arla, Wiseman and Dairy Crest the big three, say world markets for milk products and farmers producing too much milk are the main reasons for low prices.
The trigger for this week's blockade was a Milk Development Council report claiming that only a small percentage of recent retail prices increases had reached farmers. John Cumming, a Scottish organiser for Farmers for Action, said processors must start talking real money before more farmers go out of business.
Wiseman and Arla pointed out that they are paying more than 20p per litre to their suppliers, at the top end of the processors' "league".
Source: Scotsman, The
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