WESTBURY dairy farmer, James Garside, was getting paid more for his milk 24 years ago than he is today.

Mr Garside owns 140 dairy on Longcroft Farm near Westbury-on-Severn and produces around 105,000 litres a month is down around £160,000 a year due to the price of milk plummeting in recent months.

Currently his milk is bought at 17.3 pence per litre which is less than what he was paid in 1991 when he was getting 17.6 pence per litre.

James Garside said: “To put in perspective a tractor in 1991 was £25,000 for a 120 horse power tractor and now today the same type of tractor is probably £60,0000.

“You would only last so long if your income was just from dairy. You would have to rely on what you’d saved from previous years.

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