Letters: "Fewer cows, fewer producers, yet more milk in the market with prices plummeting... the sums just do not add up"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Ruth Umpleby discusses the dairy sector and recent milk price reductions

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Letters: "Fewer cows, fewer producers, yet more milk in the market with prices plummeting... the sums just do not add up"

The introduction of the fair deal dairy contract in July 2025 was met with what was then very much a naive hope that, for once, dairy farmers would be operating on a ‘level playing field'. Four months...

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