Farmers ‘should aim anger at cartels’

CARTELS operating in the farming sector should be the focus of farmers’ anger and not Government inaction, according to the Consumer Association.
Farmers ‘should aim anger at cartels’

CAI finance spokesman Eddie Hobbs said there was prima facie evidence that both the milk and beef industries were riven with cartels, which were setting prices paid to farmers and then paid by consumers.

At the moment farmers were only getting whatever price was on offer from the cartels so they were operating in an artificial marketplace, he said.

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