Political parties, supermarkets driving our farmers to the wall

THERE are some facts in the wake of the milk levy and strawberry debacle that need to be said.

Queensland has a 184 million litre shortfall of drinking milk each year, and this shortfall must come from down south.

The LNP failed to support a ‘fair milk mark’ bill brought on by the Katter party.

This was just a mark that let people know if a dairy farmer was paid a fair price.

LNP sided with Labor and voted this down.

Where is the concern for farmers then? Dairy farmers in Queensland get 55c a litre for raw milk, it costs them 58c to produce it. Yep … fact check that.

This is the result of criminal desertion by the major political parties. These hard-working families are at the mercy of an overseas processor, or a giant supermarket that does not care.

Now, we have pleas to help strawberry farmers.

How much profit do you think is in a punnet of strawberries when you can buy one for a cheap as $1?

Without farmers, we do not eat, but most politicians and customers of Coles and Woolworths do not realise that those big fridges in the supermarket do not fill themselves.

The Labor Party supports the Greens, and the Greens want an end to farming for dairy and meat, fishing and just about most food except bean and salad production.

The LNP are rudderless and don’t know how much, or in this case how little, a dairy farmer gets for his efforts.

The public deserves fresh milk, and the farmer deserves a fair price.