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lass picket of all the courtlain milk processing plants ?pots is planned for today '3day) in a bid to increase rice farmers receive for Devon farmer Richard Dick says the protest, from -13:00hrs, will only affect ries of packaged and botnilk. Tanker deliveries will Wed through. He claims the picket will affect 150 depots but denies that it is being co-ordinated centrally: "No one organisation is behind this. It is Something British farmers have decided among themselves. It is the oldfashioned jungle drums at work. Farmers have had enough. It's sad that no-one has listened to them for two years." • Farmers for Action has called off its pickets until the end of the month to see if a 2p/lit increase In the farm gate price is passed en by the milk processors.
FFA Devon co-ordinator Maurice Vellacott says: "If Haddock and others can get together a mass demonstration we will join them, provided we are happy about the motives."