UK faces winter milk production crisis.(Farming Life)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: August 11, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: RICHARD HALLORAN

According to the UK's largest farmer-owned dairy Business, Britain is facing a milk production crisis this year as a result of the Foot and Mouth outbreak.

In the first survey of its kind, First Milk - formed recently by the merger of Scottish Milk and the Gloucsetershire-based co-operative Milk Link - has contacted members farming across England, Scotland and Wales to assess the detailed impact of Foot and Mouth on their milk product...

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