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Farmers launch new blockades
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FARMERS PROTESTTNG about low milk prices have begun blockading distribution depots. The action is being co-ordinated by pressure group Farmers forAction, which has taken a key role in blockades over the past few years.
The protests are related to the low milk price.They are set to escalate as dairy companies reduce their prices — and pig producers are threatening to join their dairy farming colleagues to protest about falling farm-gate prices.
According to Farmers for Action, Asda and Aria depots were "successfully" blockaded in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Oxfordshire last week.
The organisation says the action should "be a warning to all those considering cutting the milk price".
Other distribution depots in Yorkshire and East Anglia are likely to be targeted by pig producers, who say they are stuck in the middle of a supermarket price war.
A spokesman for the British Pig Industry Support Group told CM'S stablemate, Farmers Weekly, that farmers would be "going out over the next few weeks, blockading supermarket depots in the evening to prevent deliveries".
The British Retail Consortium says its members feel the action is unjustified: "A lot of the claims made by those protesting are inaccurate and ill-informed. It's not the right way forward, and we will look to the police to ensure we can carry on our business."