UK farmers join Brussels protest over milk and meat prices
by Graham Ruddick from on (#KKHS)
Environment secretary Elizabeth Truss to push for the creation of a new futures and insurance market in dairy products at EU farming ministers' summit
Thousands of farmers will descend on Brussels on Monday to protest about falling dairy and meat prices as European ministers hold an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in the agriculture industry.
An estimated 4,000 farmers, including some from Britain, plan to march through the centre of Brussels on Monday to highlight the pressure they are under from falling prices.
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