UK DAIRY FARMERS FACE EXIT FROM EU AMIDST TIGHT PROFITS AND LOSSES AND DECLINING MILK CONSUMPTION
January 1st, 2020
With UK dairy farm profits declining in the year ending March 2019 amidst falling demand for liquid milk, there are understandable concerns as Britain exits the European Union (EU) on January 31 – starting a 12 month countdown to its practical exit from the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Faced with probably falls in farm subsidies as a result, to get things right in the country’s 14 billion litre annual output milk producing industry, there is an urgent need to “farm differently” over the next ten years, a senior UK dairy industry expert has warned ...
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