date:Jul 24, 2012
ges to the way it pays its milk farmers.
How much farmers are paid for the milk they produce has made national headlines in the UK in recent weeks. Farmers have blockaded processors depots and retail distribution sites in protest.
The catalyst for the protests was a series of price cuts from the UK's largest dairy processors. Dairy Crest, Arla Foods and Robert Wiseman have announced a series of price cuts that are set to take the farmgate price of milk down by 3.65 to four pence per litre on 1