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OPINION: European farmers are going to extreme lengths to have their message heard.
Who would work for three months without pay? And who would keep getting up at 5am every day to milk cows despite knowing there will be no milk cheque arriving this month?
Despite some spring health issues and the falling milk price, Webster Farms, the Hauraki Plains P3 Focus Farm, increased production by 10,617kgMS in its first year as a focus farm.
The UK dairy industry is in turmoil with milk price below the cost of production. The National Farmers Union says 450 English and Welsh farmers have quit in the past 12 months.
To compare the retail prices of Coke and milk and say the Coke was more affordable than milk is misleading.
Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says this morning's Fonterra Global Dairy Trade (GDT) result is shocking.
Fonterra's Australian suppliers are being paid more than a dollar extra than the co-op owners for every kgMS supplied to the co-op this season.
Fonterra has set the June guaranteed milk price (GMP) at $5.25/kgMS, matching its opening price for this season.
OPINION: European farmers are going to extreme lengths to have their message heard.
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