Published: October 23, 2018
David Littleproud is angry that the grocers won’t support a levy for farmers, but it is the dairy processors who set the price at the farm gate
Australia’s agriculture minister, David Littleproud, has called for a boycott of supermarket-branded milk. He is angry about the lack of support for a “milk levy” of 10c a litre wanted by the dairy industry to support drought-stricken farmers.
Fellow National party colleagues have called for nothing less than a royal commission into the supermarkets’ support for farmers. The Nationals leader and deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, has said he is open to the idea.
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