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Milk blockades escalating
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PROTEST GROUP Farmers For Action is stepping up depot blockades in an attempt to get dairy companies to pay more for milk; Shropshire haulier Pentons has become one of the latest targets in its campaign.
The group of disaffected farmers is promising to escalate action until they receive guarantees of a better milk price. The Shropshire protest — which saw truck movements in and out of depots halted — affected dairy company Glanbia Foods and Pentons Cold Storage, both on the Maesbury Road Industrial Estate in Oswestry.
A spokesman for Pentons declined to comment, but the protest was called off after several hours when blockade leader Andrew Bebb received a letter from Glanbia promising to meet farmers to discuss a new deal. Glanbia's plant in Anglesey was also targeted on the same night. and Farmers For Action has also staged recent picket lines at Asda's Grangemouth depot. Sainsbury's Bristol RD C and two depots owned by Nisa Today's in Scunthorpe and Stoke-on-Trent.
"Blockading depots seems to be the only thing that's working, but we haven't hit the same place twice this year," says Bebb. "But if there are no dairy farmers, there'll be no milk for hauliers to transport."