Milk price row: Farmers and processors agree draft deal

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BBC.com
23 July 2012
Last updated at 11:29 ET

Dairy farmers and the processing firms they supply have agreed on the broad principles of a deal in their dispute over milk prices, the government says.

 

Farmers have blockaded the Robert Wiseman Dairies processing plant near Bridgwater, Somerset
Farmers blockaded the Robert Wiseman Dairies plant near
ridgwater in Somerset on Sunday

 

The draft agreement relates to a voluntary code of practice designed to give farmers more bargaining power.

But the National Farmers Union said it would not solve the current "crisis".

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