Farmers threaten further protests as meetings held in Westminster

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Further protests on falling milk prices have been announced today as the President of Farmers for Action attends a meeting with MPs in the House of Commons.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss said she will meet with members from the dairy industry this week after recent milk price falls have caused a number of protests in the past month.
The announcement comes as the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers said it entered talks with leading MPs to express their own concerns.
«Phase one of our campaign was to stop any further milk price cuts, we were confident if farmers stood up to be counted this was achievable,» said David Handley, President of FFA.
«We now give you all a glimmer of hope, Arla have announced to me there will be no price cut for November.
«Well done to everybody who supported the protests, it is only a small step but we are winning the battle. If all other organisations had got
behind this campaign I am confident we would actually be seeing money coming back to hardworking dairy farmers.»
Farmers have been protesting the fall in milk prices over the past couple of weeks with well over 500 attending the last demonstration near Morrisons two weeks ago.
An FFA meeting at Penrith Auction Mart, chaired by Lord Inglewood of Hutton in the Forest, an ex MEP, who himself runs a dairy herd of 180 holsteins, attracted well over 550 producers, ancilliary businesses, farm staff, vets, feed companies, accountants etc who travelled from Scotland and all over the North of England.
Speaking at the Welsh Dairy Show, Jones, a dairy farmer from Caernarfon, said that the current situation was causing significant financial strain and called on the rest of the supply chain to take action to support milk producers at this time.
NFU Milk Board Chairman Aled Jones said, “Processors and retailers need to do more to deliver a sustainable milk price back to Welsh dairy farmers. There are a number of pricing models in the liquid milk sector that do this but with the majority of milk in Wales processed into cheese we urgently need to see these models expanded into milk that is destined for the domestic cheese market.»
 
Source: Farming UK

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Así lo expresó Domingo Possetto, secretario de la seccional Rafaela, quien además, afirmó que a los productores «habitualmente los ignoran los gobiernos». Además, reconoció la labor de los empresarios de las firmas locales y aseguró que están «esperanzados» con la negociación entre SanCor y Adecoagro.

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