EXCLUSIVE - Caroline Voaden: "Dairy farmers do not need another passive body; they need an adjudicator with teeth"

South Devon MP Caroline Voaden writes for Farmers Guardian on milk price volatility, dairy farmers who feel undercut by one-sided contracts, and an industry-wide need for a regulator which can stand up for British farmers

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Liberal Democrat MP Caroline Voaden said: "Slashing milk prices is yet another blow for farmers already under enormous pressure from high costs, market volatility, silage shortages, and uncertainty around future support after Labour’s first year in office delivered successive disappointments for the sector."
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Liberal Democrat MP Caroline Voaden said: "Slashing milk prices is yet another blow for farmers already under enormous pressure from high costs, market volatility, silage shortages, and uncertainty around future support after Labour’s first year in office delivered successive disappointments for the sector."

In late October, I co-signed a letter from Sarah Dyke, Liberal Democrats Rural Affairs spokesperson, to Farming Minister Dame Angela Eagle, calling for the Government to support dairy farmers following...

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