Milk hot tub stunt prompts price increase (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
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Milk hot tub stunt prompts price increase
2:50pm Friday 27th July 2012 in News
By Ashley Barnard, Reporter (Richmond)
Milk hot tub stunt prompts price increase
SUPERMARKET firm Lidl has agreed to pay more money to dairy farmers after a protest outside a supermarket.
The aim of the stunt, at the Lidl supermarket, in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, yesterday was to highlight the low cost of milk crippling dairy farmers and to create more public support.
Many supermarkets, including Lidl, have cut milk prices by 4p a litre and farmers say they are now making huge losses.
Catherine Alderson, 26, said the cuts were devastating her family and said she wanted to take part in the demonstration to raise the profile of the cause in North Yorkshire.
She said: "The cuts are massively affecting my family. My parents do not employ staff on the farm, so they have to work all hours to make ends meet."
Craig Bentley, from Kepwick, near Thirsk , said: "Last year I invested £250,000 on new milking robots because I wanted to invest in my future and I thought that future was secure.
"I wouldn't have spent it if I knew this would happen."
A Lidl spokesman said: "We have been monitoring the difficult situation facing dairy farmers as a result of the price cuts and we have taken the decision to pay an additional two pence per litre from August 1."
Protest organiser Tim Gibson, who runs dairy supplies firm Tim Gibson Limited in Bedale , said: "This is a move in the right direction, but farmers need the full 4p at least."
Comments(3)
markdarlo
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4:03pm Fri 27 Jul 12
doonhamer wrote:Such a bad view on this. We should be supporting this. If we don't then it will move abroad, meaning we will import our milk. I don't fancy relying on other countries for our food needs. The cost will go up as they will be able to charge us what they want as we won't have a choice but to buy from them! If for some reason nobody wants to sell to us for what ever reason, then we are stuffed, what we gonna do? We need milk for a wide range of things. We should be investing in food production in THIS country! We don't know whats around the corner!
So in these hard economic/financial times for EVERYONE, not just farmers, the Country bumpkins, as they do when they don't get their own way, eg fox killing, start bleating about how hard up they are. The fact that 95% of the population will have to pay more for milk is irrelevant to them but that is what a price hike will mean. Nobody forces them to live/work on a farm, like anyone else, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Consumers should make a stand and buy less, home cooking is not as widespread as 30 years ago and milk sales are falling drastically and the farmers know it. The public should give a helping hand and show these ignorant people that "hardship" is not a disease that is applicable to country folk alone.
NO EINSTEIN
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8:47pm Fri 27 Jul 12
doonhamer wrote:Country bumpkins, you small minded little stereotyper.
So in these hard economic/financial times for EVERYONE, not just farmers, the Country bumpkins, as they do when they don't get their own way, eg fox killing, start bleating about how hard up they are. The fact that 95% of the population will have to pay more for milk is irrelevant to them but that is what a price hike will mean. Nobody forces them to live/work on a farm, like anyone else, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Consumers should make a stand and buy less, home cooking is not as widespread as 30 years ago and milk sales are falling drastically and the farmers know it. The public should give a helping hand and show these ignorant people that "hardship" is not a disease that is applicable to country folk alone.
Its nothing too do with there own way, farmers want a living, not a loss, as do you im sure.
As for fox killing, you have twelve of your hens killed, and only one taken, you would not complain about fox hunting then.
As for if you can't stand the heat get out the kitchen, if all farmers threw in the towel like you suggest, i bet you would moan when milk was £3 a liter.
Your way of thinking, and suggestions are exactly how Nazi Germany started,
Huston, you have a problem.
doonhamer says...
3:31pm Fri 27 Jul 12