The destruction of the dairy industry — forecast in these columns in the run-up to the vote on deregulation last year — has commenced with a huge price-cutting war initiated by the Safeway-Woolworths supermarket chain, forced mergers threatened between large milk processors, dairy farmers facing a large price cut for contracted market milk, and “corner stores” left high and dry as they are undercut by the big supermarket chains.Just two months after the national deregulation of the milk …
