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Farming Minister George Eustice describes yesterday's milk summit, held in Westminster. Around the table were the NFU, milk producers, high street banks and the government trade agency UKTI, retailers and processors. They discussed the volatility of milk prices and how more help could be given to dairy farmers.

It wasn't so long ago that the dairy campaigners Farmers For Action and NFU Scotland were not on talking terms. But it seems the crisis in dairy prices has enabled them to put their policy differences to one side, having shared a platform at a meeting in Ayrshire. With the Scottish members of Farmers for Action having decided they don't want to take direct action, David Handley, chair of the protest group, tells us why there appears to be less fire in the bellies of farmers north of the Border.

When a sheep goes through the abattoir, it's aged by its teeth. Those over 12 months old have their spinal chord removed; a process knows as carcass splitting. But lamb producers want to see the system refined, so that animals that have been born the previous year are only declared to be aged 12 months old on the 30th June. The regulation of carcass splitting came into practice as a precaution during the BSE crisis.
Livestock advisor at the National Farmers' Union, Tom Fullick, explains.

Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley.