Milk price row: Farmers and processors agree draft deal [1]

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 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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