No milk of human kindness left

Battered by climate change and bullied by supermarkets, dairy farms are struggling and farmers believe much more could be done to help them
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A modest spread beside the velvety banks of the Severn estuary in Gloucestershire, Tump Farm has changed little during the four generations that Andrew Guest’s family have been running it.
The cows are contented, the farmer loves his work and around the place, with its weather-battered barns and veteran tractor, hangs a reassuringly old-fashioned sense of permanence.
It is a false sense though, for Mr Guest could be out of business within months; one of the thousands of British dairy farmers whose livelihoods are being destroyed by giveaway milk prices.
At Asda last week you could buy four pints for 89p. Bottled water costs more. Tesco and Sainsbury are selling the same four-pint package for £1. At Aldi it is 95p.
Shoppers love a bargain but cheap milk comes with a heavy concealed cost. In the past 10 years, half of Britain’s dairy farms have closed, taking with them both an essential economic generator and part of the character of the countryside.

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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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