date:Aug 04, 2012
As the British Retail Consortium (BRC) sought to deflect the blame for the low prices away from retailers and on to processors' shoulders, farmers continued to take their protests to processors plants across the country. Milk prices are sometimes 5p a litre below the cost of production, which is completely unsustainable, argue farmers.
Processors responded by pointing out that they have been constrained in what they can pay farmers for raw milk by the fall in world cream prices. Since most mi