Social media push to urge shoppers to back dairy farmers
(c) Rex Farmers are turning to social media to help promote British dairy products in the face of plummeting farmgate prices and a decline in producer numbers.
Supporters of the dairy industry are sharing pictures of themselves drinking glasses of milk and using the hashtags #milktash and #teamdairy to spread the message that by buying British milk, cheese and yoghurt, shoppers can help support the sector.
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Here’s a selection of some of the tweets in the past 24 hours:
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