Store to support dairy farm fund
A winter support fund for farmers supplying milk for cheese will be launched by Morrisons.
Farmers For Action and the National Farmers Union held talks with officials from the supermarket chain yesterday to discuss how the business could support farmers producing the retailer's milk for cheese.
Morrisons has agreed to spend three days looking at ways of bringing money into the support fund pot and will hold a further meeting with concerned parties on Friday.
A spokesman for FFA said the meeting had been "constructive and robust", with Morrison's reaffirming its commitments to provide a minimum price for liquid milk and the launch the Milk for Farmer's cheese and milk lines at the beginning of October.
Talks were today taking place between farmers' representatives and Tesco.
