Farming Today This Week
It's milking time on a Shropshire dairy farm, as Charlotte Smith investigates the voluntary dairy code and looks back at a summer of dairy protests, blockades and summits.
After a summer of dairy farmer protests, blockades and industry summits the voluntary milk code is agreed. Thousands of farmers took direct action or attended meetings after dairy processing companies changed the price paid for a litre of milk. This week farmers and processors signed up to a voluntary code of practice which sets out how the supply chain relationship should work.
Charlotte Smith is at a family run farm in Shropshire to investigate whether the code marks the start of a new beginning for the UK dairy industry. There she meets farmer, Jim Franklin who was part of the 'SOS Dairy' campaign.
This programme is presented by Charlotte Smith and produced in Birmingham by Angela Frain.
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