Island dairy farmers ‘are being made scapegoats’

Monday 26th July 2010, 2:56PM BST.

Andrew Le Gallais: ‘It’s just another kick in the teeth for the dairy industry’

Andrew Le Gallais: ‘It’s just another kick in the teeth for the dairy industry’

THE dairy industry is being unfairly singled out for funding cuts in a five-year plan for the countryside, according to the chairman of Jersey Dairy.

Andrew Le Gallais warned that the draft rural economy strategy was very tough on Island farmers because it proposed scrapping their subsidies at a time when they were already struggling.

• Full report in today’s Jersey Evening Post


  1. 1
    Mogit

    The poor old farmer eh – well well well !!!

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  2. 2
    God's Mentor

    Let market forces sort out our diary farms – is all I have to say.

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  3. 3
    Farmer Trev

    Farmer’s have had it to good for tolong

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