Marks & Spencers to Award Dairy Farmers

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Marks & Spencers to Award Dairy Farmers for High Welfare Standards

Food retailer, Marks & Spencers has announced a new scheme to reward dairy farmers, which supply the retailer store with fresh milk, for achieving and maintaining the highest levels of animal health and welfare.

The scheme, known as the Milk Pledge Plus scheme, will be run in conjunction with the Bristol Vet School and Anderson’s consultants who will inspect and monitor each farm taking part and supplying fresh milk to ensure that the dairy farms obtain the highest standards with continual improvement to animal health and welfare. All those dairy farms that supply milk to Marks & Spencers where consulted abut the scheme and invited to take part in key meetings.

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