Summary
IT MIGHT not be a case of "no milk today", but it could well be a lot less in the chill cabinets of the major supermarkets before much longer, following the announcement yesterday by First Milk, the farmer-owned business with 2,800 members in Scotland, England and Wales, that it is finding it impossible to satisfy the demands of retail outlets.
The price paid to dairy farmers has undergone a succession of increases in recent months - First Milk recently announced its fifth consecutive increase to its members - but this has clearly been not enough to halt the gathering exodus from the dairy sector.See the full content of this document
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First Milk Running Short of Supplies
Late yesterday Peter Humphreys, chief executive of First Milk, cited "force ma...
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