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Supermarkets are not milking dairy farmers dry: the myth that obscures the real problem

  • Written by Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor in Marketing and International Business, Queensland University of Technology

Australia’s federal agriculture minister, David Littleproud, has called for a boycott of supermarket-branded milk. He is angry about lack of support for a “milk levy” of 10 cents a litre wanted by the dairy industry to support drought-stricken farmers.

Fellow National Party colleagues have called for nothing less than a royal...

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