Sentence examples for farming union from inspiring English sources

Instead, farmers are organising themselves politically, using Brazil's powerful farming union as a model.

'The people of Lussaud do not live,' said Michel Masson, vice-president of France's biggest farming union, 'they survive.

In response to the fire, the National Farmers Union (NFU), Women's Food and Farming Union and Marine Conservation Society have issued a joint press release: Eunice Finney, vice president of the Women's Food and Farming Union, said: "These lanterns are far more dangerous than fireworks.

Pietro Molinaro, head of Coldiretti Calabria, the regional branch of Italy's national farming union, claimed that previous attempts to raise the issue of low prices and its link to poor working conditions with large companies including Coca-Cola had not received a response.

The farming unions held an emergency summit on Monday to discuss the crisis.

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "We maintain a regular dialogue with farming unions and industry.

Four farming unions are due to meet for an emergency summit amid a "crisis" over milk prices.

Meanwhile Britain's farming unions are trying to get the rules relaxed, for example by requiring that tags be read only when flocks get to market.

As Britain's four major farming unions held an emergency summit in London to discuss the crisis in the industry, Meurig Raymond said the country would become increasingly beholden to overseas producers unless drastic action was taken to help farms survive.

The four main farming unions, the NFU, the NFU Cymru, NFU Scotland and the Ulster Farmers Union, held an emergency summit in London yesterday to develop an action plan to tackle falling milk, lamb and arable prices.

Following their summit, the UK's four farming unions called on ministers, major retailers, the discount chains and "key people in the supply chain" to meet with them to discuss how to give farmers "fairer and more transparent contracts".