NFU calls for milk price increase

The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has conducted an investigation of the dairy market which has revealed that millions of pounds in earned revenue is not being passed back to dairy farmers.
The NFU says it is absolutely clear that the substantial rises in wholesale prices of major dairy commodities such as milk, cheese and cream in the UK should have generated substantial increases in returns for British milk manufacturers.
Speaking at the launch of the NFU’s report ‘The Great Milk Robbery’, NFU dairy board chairman Mansel Raymond (pictured) said: “I made a promise to our dairy farming members to investigate the dairy market situation and ask serious questions about why farmers are not yet seeing increases in their milk price given the positive market signals.
“The findings of our work not only confirm that farmers have yet to see the full benefit of the rise in the dairy market, but, shockingly, it reveals that the total revenue to processors from dairy commodities in May 2010 was