Farming minister doesn't know the price of milk

[Rupert_Baehr]

Doesn't it depend where you buy it from...?

 

It depends how many million litres you buy. AFAIK, there aren't many milk buyers and processors; their prices are driven by the supermarkets, the UK customers pay a (comparatively) high price for milk and the farmers get a very low price.

 

I live in a dairy-farming area (at this time of year.) The farmers are unhappy with the price they get for their milk - but they get rather more (certainly as a percentage of the retail price) than do farmers in the UK. If it's rough for the farmers where I live, how the hell do the British dairy farmers survive?

 

Is the government interested?

 

I'm not privy to the present government's plans (AFAIK, they aren't daft enough to publish them )

 

The last government had a very cunning plan - even more cunning than the cunning plans founded on cunningness which I've mentioned before!

 

In the event of a national food shortage, they were going to get the food from Tesco! (I kid you not!:hihi:)

 

Neither the last government or this one seems to be capable of supplying jobs. That's life.

 

If the government - any government - can't supply food, that's death.

 

But whose?