The angst over milk is about the future of our countryside | Simon Jenkins

The dairy farmers protesting against supermarkets are victims of a metropolitan politics which has turned their world into a fear-ridden battleground

Were farmers on the march? Did cows troop through Tesco mooing in protest at the outrageous high prices being charged for milk, thus risking oversupply and a price bubble? I don’t recall it. That was back in 2006, when the farm-gate price of milk boomed from 18p a litre to 26p in 2008, and then to 32p by 2013, while feed prices fell and profits s...