date:Jul 21, 2012
urious milk producers have staged nationwide protests about milk prices paid by some retailers and milk processors which, they claimed, were 5p per litre below production costs.
Retail giants Tesco and Sainsbury together with Marks Spencer and Waitrose have won praise for paying fair milk prices.
But retailers Asda and Morrisons and dairy processors Arla and Dairy Crest have been singled out for criticism from milk producers.
A Morrisons spokesman told FoodManufacture.co.uk:We are paying dai