Archives for February 2, 2005

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UK dairy counts cost of farm labour

The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers claims that the majority of UK dairy farmers are subsidising the cost of a pint of supermarket milk by nearly 4p per litre by failing to include family labour costs in their accounts, Tom Armitage reports.

Alcoa buys into Russian aluminium market

Aluminium packaging firm Alcoa, just named as one of the top three most sustainable corporations in the world, has bought two factories in Russia with a view to both dominating the region and using its rich aluminium resources to expand globally,...