Milk: the on-going farming crisis
The presentation of the current dairying crisis needs planning and presentation. This article outlines what needs to be done by farming leaders, and the marchers in London. Dairy farmers need a better deal. But to get it they will need convincing arguments, a compelling presentation of the facts, and friends in high places.
The hope is that the march will include these, as well as the passion and noise.
The performance of farming leaders on Radio 4's 'Today' last week was seriously unconvincing
The Today Programme presenter John Humphrys is sympathetic to the dairy farmer's cause. For some years he had a dairy farm himself in Carmarthenshire,