Farmers protesting falling dairy prices have resumed blockades against processors, who they feel are hampering the profitability of the industry.

Though Farmers for Action chair David Handley said on the protest group's website this week that a meeting in Parliament with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Dairy "Appeared to go extremely well from an FFA perspective." 

Commenting earlier in the week, Handley said, "I believe we got the message across loud and clear that there is something that can be done about the situation British dairy farmers find themselves in.  A number of suggestions were put forward to MPs… which I do believe were fully understood."

Neil Parish, APPG chair and MP for Tiverton in Devon, also commented, "We are all aware that these are frustrating and difficult times for the dairy sector and I believe it is important to provide a forum of discussion to consider every option available to tackle these problems. Everyone around the table shares the same goal, which is to make this industry more profitable and competitive."

This week protests resumed against supermarkets and processors who Farmers for Action maintain are implicated in the cuts (through devaluing milk's worth in the eyes of consumers or else profiting from the weak situation on the global market). Protestors blockaded a Morrisons depot in Cheshire on Thursday, claiming that the decision to cut retail prices diminishes the value of milk and will have impacts for suppliers of other milk buyers, though Morrisons has promised farmers will not cover the cost of its own in-store price cuts.

Earlier in the week, a cheese factory in Staffordshire was blockaded by demonstrators who accused the company of opting for "cheap" imports over domestically produced products. Protestors told the BBC that Adams Food, which is owned by the Irish Dairy Board, had been "bringing in cheap cheese and undercutting others."