milk farmer

collocation in English

meaningsofmilkandfarmer

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milk
noun[U]
uk
/mɪlk/us
/mɪlk/
the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and sheep and used by humans as a drink or for making butter, ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mər/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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(Definition ofmilkandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Themilkfarmercan ignore all considerations of hygiene.
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Themilkfarmertakes his churns to the road-end and leaves them there.
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You have a man who is perhaps amilkfarmer.
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That is why themilkfarmeris disappointed.
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I hope that he will give that assurance to themilkfarmer.
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A mobile milking parlour may be much more valuable to themilkfarmerthan the static bale, but one is eligible for grant and the other is not.
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If we do not, then of course stronger measures will have to be taken and the largermilkfarmerwill have to be hit, not just the smaller one.
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He was also a largemilkfarmer.
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Then, there is a restriction that could be from a satire: milk farmers were not allowed collectively to advertise the product.
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However, in the first six months of this year milk farmers have done fairly well.
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Can he give milk farmers, who are obviously thinking of the future, any indication of how he sees the outcome of that problem?
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We must keep our milk farmers farming and the communities where they earn their living as viable entities.
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I should explain that they were small milk farmers.
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There are rumours of the possibility that milk farmers will have transport discrimination made against them.
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Milk farmers went to bed at night with a milk production that was worth absolutely nothing.
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As for the milk farmers who are coming back into the scheme, we have no idea yet how many will apply.
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The first such restriction, which is beyond my ken, is that milk farmers were not allowed to process the product.
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Milk farmers are competing in a very unequal market.
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The quota which is to be released by this method will be used to help the small milk farmers and the special cases.
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All that milk farmers can do is sell the raw product, leaving others to take the added value and profit.
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