Supermarket to scrap dairy levy for milk farmers

Woolworths will get rid of its 10 cent dairy levy for milk farmers by the middle of the year.

But the price of milk will be staying the same.

The supermarket is getting rid of the levy due to easing drought conditions and rising milk prices.

Australian Dairy Farmers CEO David Inall said, by and large, both those arguments were true.

He said the supermarket was entitled to remove the levy, but farmers didn’t want to see any “backsliding” with prices to occur.

“We don’t want to see any reduction in prices or returns going to these farmers,” Mr Inall said.

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