Cricketer Farm cheddar cheese firm near Bridgwater to stop production
In all the kerfuffle about dairy farmers and milk are we missing the impact on other aspects of the dairy production chain? Areas of activity which don’t have access to any form of subsidy akin to the single farm payment? This story may not be an isolated incident in the wider impact of the global milk surplus which is depressing prices and sometimes perhaps the consumer is as much if not more to blame than the retailers for how this affects local businesses. What’s for sure is that 70 jobs are hard to replace in a rural location like Nether Stowey. This article tells us:
A cheddar cheese producer in Somerset has said it will cease production because of “challenging times” in the dairy industry.
Cricketer Farm in Nether Stowey near Bridgwater has made cheese since the 1940s and employs almost 70 people.
A spokesman said the firm had suffered “significant financial losses” over the past financial year and production would stop over the next six months.
He said it had also lost a contract to supply to a “major customer”.
A spokesman said it was not viable for the company to continue due to of a “period of uncertainty in the UK dairy market”.