Publications
RABDF - Milk Digest is the regular newsletter to all members of the RABDF. Below is just an overview of the articles available, more is available in the members area.
November 2009
July 2009
May 2009
March 2009
Click the publication dates below to reveal their overview of articles available.
January 2009
November 2008
September 2008
July 2008
April 2008
February 2008
December 2007
September 2007
July 2007
May 2007
The RABDF have championed the idea of farmers using the real cost of family labour in their production costs to ensure that they do not subsidise the cost of production. RABDF have recently updated their study Identifying the true costs of family labour and is available here.
To find out more about the study please visit the news pages or click on the publication.
As part of the RABDFs continuous lobbying activities on a fair price for farmers for the price of milk, RABDF have produced a range of important publications in recent years.
Notably in 2006 and 2007 RABDF collaborated with NFU to produce British Milk – What Price. These documents have been used extensively throughout the industry as a minimum figure for cost of production of milk:
The RABDF have long been supporters of including the cost of family labour in the cost of milk production.