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- South Molton
Confused
Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter rc mx110
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- somerset
the only people that really know how much milk, is going to be produced, is the people producing, we know how good/bad our fodder supplies are, how much fert we can buy/use, how we might change our system, etc, but no body ever asks us. Its all guess work, educated guess work.
To us, its obvious production is going to drop, not only here, but across the globe, fert is pretty well a global price, even a 5% drop, will have a big effect, Ukraine will further reduce stocks, chuck in a weather event, in the main corn belts, and panic stations. We know food availability is tight, if it wasn't, the nearly decent prices for cull, and prime stock, would be much lower, its called competition, a new word, for s/mkts perhaps ?
frederick
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- south west
I don't think @dinderleat can have seen any news about dover in the last 10 days.
However there are other ferries and other routes to powder towers I would trust Arla to have a plan b and c and d to avoid lost milk.
frederick
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- south west
That's unfortunately simply not true.
Asking farmers how much milk they will produce has proven to be the worst way of predicting milk intake .
Running models with some of the factors you mention is far more accurate.
- Location
- South Molton
Meat was on the news as an issue, would milk have priority?
Depends who's factories have had the breakdowns.
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- South Molton
You'd like to think so !
frederick
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- Location
- south west
- Location
- South Molton
Fishguard isn't much use for France , unless you hijack it
frederick
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- Location
- south west
As long as your prepared to pay below minimum wage the ferry business itself might be attractive. If you could process the milk at sea and ignore all environmental regulations and access to cheap labour maybe a powder ship might be the option.Fishguard isn't much use for France , unless you hijack it
dinderleat
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- Wells
I was being facetious
- Location
- somerset
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in other words, its simple guess work, nobody knows what will happen tomorrow, weather, hard luck, disease or simply less production, for any number of reasons, but farmers will know before the processors. Most of us have to submit a forecast, 12 months, with 3 monthly updates, fair enough, but its all done on predicted yields, any number of things could upset it, and probably do, the farmer is always the first to know.
- Location
- South Molton
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
- Location
- South Molton
Every commodity was back in price. But some regional products weren't offered.
75% of sale volume was SMP and WMP
- Location
- somerset
down 10ppl, a wild guess ! You can be pleasantly surprised of anything better than that !
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
43p
Anything less is an embarrassment.
frederick
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- Location
- south west
We won't know until Arla announce and how much pressure it applies.
If Arla don't keep moving the rest will probably decide they have done enough
If Arla don't keep moving the rest will probably decide they have done enough
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Not sure that’s true with barbers already promising 42p plus for June.