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To an outsider looking in, you’d be forgiven for thinking the industry just lurches from crisis to crisis,” says Arla UK MD and newly appointed chair of Dairy UK Ash Amirahmadi.
He’s not wrong. The past five years have seen the sector buffeted by challenges from farmer unrest over low prices, falling consumption and the rise of plant-based to concerns over the sector’s impact on climate change, not to mention Brexit uncertainty.