People needed bridgewater now!! Morrisons

Just got home 5.03. Not at all out of hand but had a police inspector who was flexing his muscles early on and trying some fair scare and threatening tactics to get us moved. luckily we stayed strong,google was our friend and he went at midnight (2 hours after his shift was meant to finish) and the next one was a top man and tried to act as a negotiator but with little response from Morrisons started to lose his rag with them. All we wanted was written confirmation of a overdue meeting for tomorrow morning to sort long overdue matters and they wouldn't provide it.
They had been shut for 11 hours with no notice or prior warning. At 3 am we were told to move on with the right to return with the police taking our side as nobody was willing to talk from Morrisons or else he would of had the decision taken out of his hands to forcefully move us on at 3am so we left.....and see what tomorrow brings. It was a slow start as many were still milking but in a few hours approximately 300 we there and showed that feeling and determination are still strong.
Co op moved and londis,Asda on lamb too, Tesco on yogurt and cheese....why are they being such a**holes?
 

llamedos

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MORRISONS UPDATE


We have as yet had no telephone call from Morrisons. Saying that they decided to go to the NFU and told the President due to the pain we caused them last night/early this morning they are going to the Home Office! They also told the NFU that due to our protest vast amounts of perishable food will have to be discarded. So in fact what they are saying is that perishable food items in their Distribution Centres is very near its end date.


Dairy farmers deal in a perishable food product and have to sell it for what is offered to them, we don't have the luxury of storing it until the price is right, so in a way what goes around comes around as dairy producers will soon be forced to discard their milk

as many are losing 15ppl and more just to produce.

Their cows will go, ok the younger animals will get sold on but the older ones, even though they are fit and healthy and still producing quality milk and would have stayed on the farm for several years yet, will go to slaughter as nobody will want them. We all have favorites in our herds and many families will be broken by this.


So Morrisons, is why can the discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, whose stores are also full of British beef, pork and chicken, come to the table and agree to pay farmgate price for their milk, as have Nisa, but Morrisons will not?
 

Pasty

Member
Location
Devon
I don't think it means it's very near it's end date at all. That's rubbish. Any delay is going to mean waste if you think it through. Not really arguing against protests but I think that statement is a slur.
 

Gulli

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Anyone know what the perishable goods were? Fruit?veg?flowers? Who produces all that stuff? Farmers!

Morrisons will more than likely pass the loss onto their suppliers :meh:

Anyone know what plan b is when the protests don't work?
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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