Farmers clash with dairy chief

Producers and manufacturers in the UK dairy industry are at loggerheads over milk prices and farmers’ plans to build new factories.
The split that threatened to engulf the industry before Milk Marque was forced to break up last year seems deeper than ever after a row broke out at a conference in London last month.
Dairy Crest chairman Simon Oliver was shouted down by angry farmers as he talked up the plc structure and branded the strategy of co-operatives branching out into processing as