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In particular, we are keen for an indication to be given of the estimated outturn for the previous financial year before we are asked to consider figures for the following and subsequent financial years.
It points out that there will many fewer farmers in the dairy sector and that smaller farms will go to the wall.I was in a farmer's kitchen when he talked about stopping his milk production the following week and doing something else if he could.