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I see Shelagh Hancock has taken a non exe director post at Carrs. I’d have thought when they’re delivering the lowest price to producers...

Trouble is none of us know how much arla is short by, they may only need 10 million litres which is only 10 farms around their factory...

What makes it worse is my milk is lifted by an Arla tanker. I’m just basic RT assurance no extras and I doubt very much that milk will...

And all the other regenerative agriculture nonsense as well seems to mean nothing if they’re giving the milk away. They’ve lot their...

The hurdles thing is a myth

Never much chat about First Milk on here. Are there many direct suppliers on here? July price will be about 7.5 pence behind Arla and no...

Are the calves fed at erratic times too?

Any one who milks at 5 in a morning and then is still milking at night till gone 10.30/11.00 needs to seriously look at the whole job...

More and more milk buyers are specifying that cows graze for a very significant part of the year. Good luck with turning 1000 let alone...

It’s surprising when you get rid of a dozen cows and your milk doesn’t alter ,it shows how bad that dozen were

Any new on what First Milk are doing. Seem to be getting a bit sluggish on price moves

At 6p off and constantly a month behind playing catch up yes. Round us any land to rent or buy, cows that make good money all go to Arla...

We're milking a third less cows and it's going well. Less fert, less staff, high milk price, fabulous cull cow values, what's not to like?

I used to go for 2 days every year when I was younger. Great show, good social life, met lots of folk for a catch up. Had missed a good...