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Berlin - As a boycott by German dairy farmers entered a second week, pickets remained around many milk plants and German supermarkets said Tuesday that supplies of some fresh-milk products were becoming tighter.

The protests against the falling price of milk in Europe have taken a harder edge, with police dragging away picketers from milk plants late Monday north of Hamburg.

Conservative farm leaders have denounced radical farmers for going beyond the law by mounting pickets.

Tractors remained parked across access roads to several major plants Tuesday, preventing supplies arriving from farmers who have ignored the strike and preventing packed milk, butter and yoghurt moving out to shops.