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Petition Reintroduce the Milk Marketing Board for Stability in British Agriculture

The Milk Marketing Board was dissolved in 2002, creating uncertainty in British Agriculture for Dairy Farmers with the farm gate milk prices consistently deramped by the abuse of market power of ALL the supermarkets. British Milk is NOT a loss leader and cost of production COP is not fair payment.

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Reintroduce the MMB to control the supermarkets Abuse of Power & promote stability and sustainability in British Agriculture.

Introduce a fair and reasonable minimum price above the COP which remains indefinitely and increases as COP increases.

Ban ALL supermarkets from dictating prices and devaluing the supply chain.

Ban imported Dairy Products, the UK is Self Sustainable.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/milk-marketing-board-dairy-farmers

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House of Commons Committee looks at Dairy prices

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Reintroduce the Milk Marketing Board for Stability in British Agriculture: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105836

At 2.30pm today the EFRA Committee will be holding a one-off evidence session on dairy prices where they will question witnesses from the National Farmers’ Union and Dairy UK. They will then question the Government Minister responsible for food and farming George Eustice MP.

You can find out more about the evidence session and watch it live on the Committee’s website: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/news-parliament-2015/dairy-prices/

After the meeting, the video and transcript will be made available on the same page (the transcript will take a couple of days to appear).

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