UK: CONCERN OVER PRICE OF SCHOOL MILK

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Farmers have expressed concern over the price that school children are being asked to pay for milk. Despite European Union subsidies school children in Wales are being asked to pay GB[pound] 0.15 for a third of a pint of milk. This is said to be nearly six times more than the GB[pound] 0.08 per pint which the farmers are selling the milk for. The Welsh Development Agency is aiming to make milk as popular as fizzy drinks for school age children, and is therefore serving the milk in disposable cups and drinking straws. The scheme's co-ordinators claim that the high cost is to cover the delivery, refrigeration, packaging and marketing of the milk. However, the co-ordinators have admitted that the price is a problem and are looking at ways to reduce it.

Commodity & service prices, Prices and rates

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UK: DAIRY CREST WINS UNIGATE BATTLE

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Dairy Crest has finally won the bidding battle for Unigate's cheese and milk business, following the withdrawal of Robert Wiseman. Robert Wiseman was not able to match Dairy Crest's improved cash bid of GB[pound] 250mn, and claims that it will return to its strategy of expanding through organic growth. Dairy Crest's finance director Ian Laurie, states that the company was able to offer more for the Unigate business, due to bigger synergies from greater geographical and product overlap. Dairy Crest will now become the UK's largest dairy company, and move to the number two position in the fresh milk market behind Express Dairies.

Asset sales & divestitures, Cheese, natural and processed, Cheese, Cheese Manufacturing, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Dairy Crest Ltd., Unigate PLC

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Our unhealthy love of milk

Article Abstract:

Modern dairy farming methods focus on producing as much milk as possible, with little regard for the health of the milk-producing cows or milk consumers. Extensive use is made of antibiotics, both to promote growth and treat infections, and this contributes to producing a strain of drug-resistant bacteria. Furthermore, dairy cows are made to stand in their own excrement. Pasteurization has lulled many countries into a false sense of security, leading them to the misguided belief that milk is safe.

Health aspects, Column, Milk

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