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Old 10-08-2015, 11:04 PM #9
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They should bring back the Milk Marketing Board and make them completely independent and profit free and give the the power to set prices based on farmers and processors costs and retailers profit margins so everybody gets a fair piece of the pie.

The big retailers have used really cheap milk (and bread) as a way to get people into their stores for years. There is a reason why milk and bread are always at the far end of the supermarket they cottoned on years ago that if you put the things that everybody needs to buy at the back of the store and make them as cheap as possible you sell more of everything else along the way.

It is unfair on the farmers to be used like that.
If you buy milk if you look for the red tractor logo then you can be assured the farmer received a fair price.
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