Milking Herd

Part of Private Business – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 March 1979.

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Photo of Mr Hamish Watt Mr Hamish Watt , Banffshire 12:00, 15 March 1979

Can the Minister tell British dairy farmers, and more particularly their bankers, why they should continue to invest in milk production when costs are increasing by 17 per cent., when money is costing 16 per cent. and when the best that the Minister can offer is a 5 per cent. devaluation of the green pound?