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Irish Farmers' Association furious over major chains cutting the price of milk Supermarkets in the Irish Republic are threatened with a petrol-style blockade by dairy farmers who claim they could [...]

Proposed new organisation will create unified lobby Milk producers are preparing to restructure the UK Federation of Milk Producer Organisations into a grouping that will represent the interests of quota [...]

It has been the standard retort of processors to dairy farmers' complaints about low prices that falling commodity values dictate the price of raw milk. In response, UK dairy farmers [...]

Political support for the dairy industry surged in the days before Parliament closed for the summer recess, with allegations of an illegal cartel in milk levelled against four multiples by [...]

Organic milk producers are calling on health chiefs to encourage consumers to drink their product. OMSCo, the UK's leading organic dairy farming co-operative, is calling on the Food Standards Agency [...]

Dairy bosses have described the government decision on CAP reforms as disappointing. DEFRA's decision to make a single farm payment on an area basis was not what farmers were hoping [...]

Dairy producers desperately need an independent arbiter or ombudsman to ensure a fairer marketplace, a group of leading MPs has been told. Producer representatives said the current voluntary code of [...]

A leading dairy insider has called for greater clarity with regard to the EU's reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Craig Norgate, chief executive of the New Zealand based Fonterra [...]

Militant producers group Farmers For Action is threatening further protests against supermarkets which they claim are still forcing processors to cut milk prices. Denying reports in the Cheshire Daily Post [...]