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Dairy Cooperative

The UK's first dairy-producer organisation - a kind of farmers' cooperative - has been launched. Dairy Crest Direct will be able to negotiate on behalf of its 1,000 farmers.

The UK's first Dairy Producer Organisation has been launched. It will act like a farmers' cooperative, and will be able to legally negotiate on behalf of its members. It'll be called Dairy Crest Direct, and will represent the 1,000 farmers who supply Dairy Crest.

As part of our look at innovation on farms, we hear from farmers at Grassland UK - an exhibition of some of the biggest and best new machines on the market. And Sophie Anton hears about a new system for growing plants - vertically, using no soil!

And did you know that 90% of the flowers we buy are imported? We hear from a campaigner who'd like to see British flowers promoted in the same way as British produce.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced in Bristol by Sally Challoner.

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Fri 22 May 2015 05:45

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