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Unit 3 Micro: Economics of the Milk Industry

Geoff Riley

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.

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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

Farmers Weekly visits a 32000 cow dairyfarmersweeklyvideo

Dairy farming’s future lies in successes of its pastbroadcastexchange

London consumers on milk prices - PART 1farmersweeklyvideo

Would London consumers pay more for milk?farmersweeklyvideo

Farm minister hits out over milk price cutsfarmersweeklyvideo

More milk price cuts ‘can’t be ruled out’farmersweeklyvideo

Not in my Cuppa campaign filmwspauk

Making a serious business of small scale farming - The Future Farm food co-operative.pasturepromise

Future of UK Dairy Farming - Countryfile milk wspa battery super mega farm Nocton Dairiesgxx4lbbkbr

Does supply and demand determine markets?bigthink

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

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