Dairy Crest Proposing To Send Organic Cows On Holiday

As UK consumers drift away from organic produce as the credit crunch bites, Dairy Crest has sent a letter to it's organic milk producers saying that the compnay has no option than to cut the price it pays producers by 3.7ppl.

Dairy Crest's milk purchasing director Arthur Reeves said the firm was negotiating with organic certification bodies and DEFRA to allow producers an organic "holiday" to feed cows conventionally until the oversupply situation was corrected!

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