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Just a little bit of information about why local milk is so important;

• Two dairy farmers are going out of business every day
• If the current rate continues they’ll be no British dairy farms in 15 years
• In the mid 90’s there were 36,000 dairy farmers producing enough milk to meet the UK national quota
• Today there are only 12,000
• Reasons behind this start from the demise of the Milk Marketing Board in the 1990’s
• Since then farmers have struggled to receive a fair price for their milk, leading to many quitting the industry
• Some farmers have not even been receiving enough money per litre to meet the production costs.
• Liquid milk consumption is now 15% lower than ten years ago