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Barbers still seem happy to share....There use to be an open policy on AB failures but it's all classed as commercially sensitive now so can't benchmark between buyers.
Barbers still seem happy to share....There use to be an open policy on AB failures but it's all classed as commercially sensitive now so can't benchmark between buyers.
Post the figures online then.Barbers still seem happy to share....
Did they give you figures for other processors?
Did you mean to reply to me? I was just following on from @watcher72 's post regarding sharing of AB failure data.Why would that matter though?
A milk buyer has stipulated, for whatever reason, that they want all their producers to fulfil some additional criteria. I can only speculate why this might be, but I suspect it might be something to do with their eventual customer and marketing reasons. From memory there has been talk of additional Johnes disease controls but don't quote me.
As such, since the farmer is in fact listening to his customer and responding to customer demands, he has two choices in this matter: comply with what the customer wants, or sell his milk elsewhere for an easier life, and there are no shortage of milk buyers in this region I can tell you that.
Competition, in a free market environment. It is a thing.
Sorry alI they have shared is their figures verses the national avg which I have already posted
9200 producers in E and W1 failure for every 350 tests
Yeap I think the figures quoted in the milksure information are fairly similar.9200 producers in E and W
9320÷350=26.6
That s 26 failures every day? 0.3%failure rate. Or 1 failure for every producer in E and W every year!
The book forThought 26 sounded a bit high so had a google.
3 a day? Second paragraph.
https://www.bcva.eu/cpd/milksure-vets-Feb19
I think that is standard industry practice so even if a tanker is a fail,they donot lose a silo.All the lorries going into first milk in haverfordwest are tested before they are unloaded
Only a snap test.All the lorries going into first milk in haverfordwest are tested before they are unloaded
Well I suppose if there's 7 separate farms milk on a tanker. That's 1300 collections a day, so 3 failures a day is 1 failure in 433 so in the region roughly.I have just re read the info I received from
Barbers. It states we used to have a failure every 350 tests which is
Broadly similar to the national average where as now it’s every 2500 tests so a huge improvement.
So now I’m confused.
Sorry