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26/07/2012
Farmers End Milk Blockades
Farmers have ended their blockade of a milk processing plant in Derbyshire.
About 200 farmers, who have been at Dairy Crest's factory in Foston since Wednesday protesting over declining payments, have now left the site.
There have been protests around the UK over the amount of money farmers are paid for milk.
A Dairy Crest plant in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, was also blockaded on Wednesday night.
About 45 farmers used tractors to block a road near the factory.
The National Farmers Union said cuts in the price paid to suppliers, combined with rising feed costs, could force hundreds of farmers out of business.
The protesters used tractors and farm machinery to stop vehicles entering and leaving the processing plants.
One of the farmers at the Derbyshire protest, Paul Rowbottom, said: "All they have got to do is give some of the profit back to us.
I'm annoyed at them because they've got the money to give it back. They've only got to talk to the supermarkets and they are all blaming one another."
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About 200 farmers, who have been at Dairy Crest's factory in Foston since Wednesday protesting over declining payments, have now left the site.
There have been protests around the UK over the amount of money farmers are paid for milk.
A Dairy Crest plant in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, was also blockaded on Wednesday night.
About 45 farmers used tractors to block a road near the factory.
The National Farmers Union said cuts in the price paid to suppliers, combined with rising feed costs, could force hundreds of farmers out of business.
The protesters used tractors and farm machinery to stop vehicles entering and leaving the processing plants.
One of the farmers at the Derbyshire protest, Paul Rowbottom, said: "All they have got to do is give some of the profit back to us.
I'm annoyed at them because they've got the money to give it back. They've only got to talk to the supermarkets and they are all blaming one another."
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