It's time to back our dairy farmers.
That's the strapline of the NFU’s latest lobbying activity to eliminate unfair commercial practices within the dairy supply chain. We want to see fair dealings between farmers and dairy companies and would like the government to raise the benchmark by setting out certain minimum standards for milk contracts.
We’re asking the government to:
Back the Commission’s proposals to provide a new baseline standard for milk contracts that is compulsory across all milk deliveries - Draw up a contractual code of practice backed up, if necessary, by regulation to ensure fair dealings between farmers and dairy companies
- Prepare standard template contracts as an example of best practice. The NFU’s template contract would provide an excellent basis for this
- Examine whether the operation of Rural Development Programmes can be improved to assist farmer representatives by enabling the employment of professional support for negotiation
- Investigate the possibility for producing more transparent information on the distribution of margins and wholesale prices in the dairy supply chain. Read the full MP briefing here
We need your help
The success of this lobbying activity depends greatly on member participation, and we’re asking dairy farmers for just a few moments of their time to send a letter to their local MP and Milk Buyer to raise awareness of the campaign.
We ask for just a few moments of your time to personalise the following letters. These are available via the links on the right of this page in different formats or can be accessed below:
To allow us to monitor the correspondence, please send a copy of your letter and any responses you receive to dairy@nfu.org.uk or Campaigns Department, NFU, Agriculture House, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, CV8 2TZ.
Letter to your MP
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Letter to your milk buyer or farmer representative
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Letter to your dairy farmer representative
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- rosemary rowe - 23/05/2011
Action is needed urgently, talk is too easy. A load of big bale silage dumped outside a few supermarket entrances would do the trick! Action like the French farmers would help.