Wyke Farms has increased the price it pays farmers for milk by 5ppl and issued a stark warning to the rest of the industry that if they fail to follow suit the UK could be facing milk shortages this winter. Wyke, the UK's largest ...
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a GBP5m (US$7.7m) funding programme aimed at helping improve dairy farmers' competitiveness. Cameron used Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday (11 July) to unveil the funding, which is ...
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Proposals for new rules allowing milk farmers in England to join forces on talks with buyers have been set out today (11 December). The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is consulting on legislation that would give ...
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The UK and Ireland division released its 2012 Creating Shared Value Plan under the banner ‘Building a Sustainable Future’. Nestlé highlighted its Easter egg range that incorporated 100% recyclable packaging and claimed ...
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Much of the talk for manufacturers on the release of their first-half and second-quarter results last week was focused on weakness in Europe and the knock-on effect from the impact of the US drought on corn prices. Elsewhere, Haribo said it ...
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Cutting regulation, reforming agricultural policy and buying British will boost the UK food industry and help create jobs, Owen Paterson, the new Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. ...
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Morrisons is to increase what it pays to milk farmers, becoming the latest UK retailer to up its payment amid anger from suppliers. The UK's fourth-largest retailer said it would increase the premium it pays for milk and make an extra ...
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Asda, the UK's second-largest grocer, has again increased the price it pays to milk farmers in its dedicated DairyLink scheme as protests over recent cuts in the industry continue. The company has offered its DairyLink farmers a two pence ...
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UK milk supplier Robert Wiseman Dairies has insisted it will look to bring more transparency to how it determines the price it pays farmers after a tense summer in the sector. The company has launched plans to work with representatives ...
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UK retailer Asda will increase the premium it pays the farmers who supply its liquid milk through the Arla Foods Milk Partnership. After demonstrations targeting Asda for paying below the cost of production, Asda has bowed to pressure and ...
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Robert Wiseman Dairies has become the latest UK dairy processor to announce an increase in the price it pays farmers for milk. Wiseman, owned by German yoghurt giant Muller, is to up the price it pays by 2.57p to 29p per litre on 15 ...
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Arla Foods is to increase the price it pays its co-operative members in the UK for milk in a move, it said, would "build confidence" in the UK dairy industry. The Cravendale milk owner said it will now pay 29.5ppl for milk supplied by ...
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Dairy farmers in Isle of Wight,a county in England,have introduced a new milk brand which will be produced,processed and packaged in the county. The new brand which will be known as I love Isle of Wight Milk,will be sold in Tesco and some ...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Engro Foods are implementing a project to install 60 milk chillers in remote villages in Pakistan, as a part of a strategy to increase incomes of small dairy farms. The USAID-funded ...
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India plans to invest INR930m ($16.79m) during 2012-13 to boost milk production in the state of Punjab, according to Dairy Development Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike. As a part of the project, the Punjab government will implement subsidies ...