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Farming Today: Milk Crisis, British Fruit, Illegal Waste

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14/10/2014

Milk Crisis, British Fruit, Illegal Waste

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Milk Crisis, British Fruit, Illegal Waste

Campaign for a fair price for British milk, plus Illegal waste dumping at a Scottish farm.

Can British milk benefit from a fair price campaign? Anna Hill asks a marketing expert, as milk prices remain low.

Can British milk benefit from a Fair Trade-style campaign? As farm gate prices remain low, one marketing expert tells Anna Hill what farmers can do to promote the true value of milk to the consumer.
We meet a fruit grower in Norfolk who has managed to get her apples and pears into a local retailer, just weeks after telling Farming Today that her produce would rot on the ground.
And an investigation is launched after hundreds of tons of waste was illegally dumped at a disused farm near Edinburgh wrapped in agricultural polythene to look like bails of hay or silage.

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