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... as farmers man the barricades
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MILITANT FARMERS demanding higher prices for their milk plan to start blockading dairies this week and they are calling on operators to back them.
Farmers For Action (FFA) chairman David Handley says: "Hauliers are being caught up in this totally unnecessarily. Like us they are being screwed into the ground by low rates while the processors and retailers make fat profits.
"We have no dispute at all with hauliers themselves in emergencies and in special circumstances we will let them through... we are not looking forward to the action and we'd like to avoid it, but we no longer feel we have any choice." FFA is demanding an immediate 2p/lit rise in the farm-gate milk price with a further 2p/lit in January. The price is currently 17.5p/lit, which farmers say is less than it costs to produce the milk.