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Unit 3 Micro: Economics of the Milk Industry
12th July 2012
The milk industry is in the news once again with some dairy farmers threatening to go on strike and limit milk supplies in protest at cuts in the wholesale price of milk offered to them by the major milk processing businesses. I have put together some video resources available from different web sources and built them into a Storify slideshow, as more videos are added the slideshow will be updated automatically.
[View the story “Economics of the Milk Industry” on Storify]Economics of the Milk Industry
News video resources on issues facing the UK milk industry
Storified by Geoff Riley · Thu, Jul 12 2012 02:03:16
BBC News: Farmers protest: ‘Only retailers profit from milk’
TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall backs farmers over milk
Milk farmer protests: Morrisons joins Co-op payments boost
‘Long term future doesn’t look bright’ for dairy farmers
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.