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does that coincide with the arla mentality of if your not with them your against them?arla farmers are generally the more single minded than most..
I don't think I would subscribe to that thought, I would love to see FM flourish , Arla cannot grow to be the only uk processor and so if we are going to have competition I would far rather it be farmer owned and have the farm gate milk price as it's goal with all profits returned to the farmer , than have to compete with companies whose only goal is margin on the milk they process with no real stake in the actual value of that milk , thus making it far too easy to buy market share with farmers money .
The nice thing about organic milk is that by far the vast majority is controlled by farmer owned co-ops , it would be great to see conventional move more that way , we are all on the same side after all