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Supermarket giants Coles and Aldi are raising the prices of their two and three litre bottles of milk, vowing to pass the extra money onto Australian dairy farmers.
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Today, readers are divided on South Australia’s moratorium on genetically-modified crops, a correspondent questions the future of the submarine given the rise of undersea “drones”, a plea on the Adelaide Oval hotel, and more.
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Welcome to InDaily’s new way to publish reader contributions. Today, readers question South Australia’s festivals strategy, take a federal minister to task over milk prices, and raise a skeptical eyebrow about the latest moves on submarine jobs.
The federal agriculture minister has savaged Coles and Aldi for keeping their cut-price milk lines and has urged customers to boycott them.
Woolworths will stop selling milk for $1 a litre, bumping up the price by 10 cents with the increase to go to struggling dairy farmers.
The state’s largest organic dairy company is struggling to meet “sky-rocketing” demand as the consumer backlash against below-cost dairy products continues to prove a boon for local, branded milk.
Dairy giant Fonterra has blamed dry weather and low prices for a fall in Australian milk production over the last year.
