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UK dairy farmers threaten to blockade supermarkets

The ongoing controversy in the UK over milk pricing has had dairy famers fuming, and they're prepared to play hardball with Britain's big supermarket chains.

Dairy farmers are planning a series of demonstrations against supermarket chains in protest at lower milk prices that they say will bankrupt them and change the countryside.

Blockades of stores and restricting supply by pouring milk down the drain are among the measures being considered against Asda, Co-Op and Morrisons, unless the farmers' demands are met – a reversal of the 4p-a-litre cut in the next fortnight.

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UK dairy farmers threaten to blockade supermarkets