UK – The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and militant farming group Farmers for Action (FFA) are up in arms this week, after discount retailer Lidl demanded its processors milk dropped prices.

250 FFA members picketed Lidl’s Livingstone, Scotland depot for 12 hours from Monday evening, after Lidl lowered the price it was willing to pay its processors by 1.3 p (1.8 cents) FFA claim a meeting between Lidl and its processors resulted in the company telling them to ‘put up or shut up’, despite earlier blockades by over 500 FFA members.

FFA has warned that it has “plenty more in store for Lidl”.

Today, the NFU milk committee chairman said: “Lidl’s actions are completely unjustified