2872 viewsDairy initiatives brought in recently by big supermarkets have been described as ‘a step forward’.
David Shaw, who is a member of the NFU’s national dairy board, said a lot of farmers would be ‘very, very pleased’ about the prices they are now getting for their milk.
David, who farms Jersey cattle in Yorkshire, said the industry has been in ‘turmoil’ after a year of protests over the price of milk.
In August the NFU said dairy farmers were nearing a ‘state of emergency’ after the price paid for milk dropped by a quarter in a year.
He said the only future solution he sees is through contracts and the creation of a contracted pricing system for a farmer’s products.
