Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker

Wee Willy

Member
Location
Tyrone
The worst experts I find are those who have just started milking cows,can tell them nothing,they already know all,yes they can put milk in the tank but its money in the bank that counts
Do you realise how old and bitter that post makes you sound? Your advancing years have made you jealous and resentful of the young and energetic new entrants. You need to chill. Feel young again. Get more love in the bedroom. It's Saturday, have an early night with Mrs Z or Mr Z or non gender specific Z. Relive your youth. It's not their fault they're young and have their own ideas.
 

Cowlife

Member
I ve got a 12 week old calf carrying a front leg. Foot looks OK and can't feel anything obvious wrong with knee or shoulder. Any suggestions before I run it to vet?
 

Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
Big cheque books,big dds moaning about debt,big loans no money and they're only starting milking, moan moan moan,who said it was all sunshine, the grass is always greener
The should be thanking their lucky stars the havent qouta loans to contend with as well !! Remember them? Must have spent the price of a small farm buying qouta.
Now every man and his dog is rushing in to make their fortune with the white oil . Cant last forever some day the milk churn will flow over and the price willfall to unsustainable levels . Im old enough to remember the various shemes in the seventies like the non marketing milk scheme that paid farmers to exit milk production. Many heavily indebted " new entrants " were forced by bank pressure to avail of the scheme . Qoutas followed and milk price stabilised and rose to profitable levels. The mulder court case granted qouta to the farmers who availed of the non marketing scheme but most of them never bothered restarting and sold the qouta. History lesson over, guess im old and bitter and very cynical..........
 

Wee Willy

Member
Location
Tyrone
Farmers in the north were always stupid. I think I remember my Dad leasing quota at 18p to get paid 17 p for producing it. Alternative was a levy of 20+p.
We’re still stupid. Thought about it in the parlour tonight,why do we milk in the winter? My milk cheque is slightly over half the value of my May cheque yet my meal bill is four times my May meal bill. Madness,utter madness.
 

Aircooled

Member
Location
co Antrim
The should be thanking their lucky stars the havent qouta loans to contend with as well !! Remember them? Must have spent the price of a small farm buying qouta.
Now every man and his dog is rushing in to make their fortune with the white oil . Cant last forever some day the milk churn will flow over and the price willfall to unsustainable levels . Im old enough to remember the various shemes in the seventies like the non marketing milk scheme that paid farmers to exit milk production. Many heavily indebted " new entrants " were forced by bank pressure to avail of the scheme . Qoutas followed and milk price stabilised and rose to profitable levels. The mulder court case granted qouta to the farmers who availed of the non marketing scheme but most of them never bothered restarting and sold the qouta. History lesson over, guess im old and bitter and very cynical..........
Considering the expansion in the south, your processors seem to be doing something right . None of us are making a fortune this winter though.
 

Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
Farmers in the north were always stupid. I think I remember my Dad leasing quota at 18p to get paid 17 p for producing it. Alternative was a levy of 20+p.
We’re still stupid. Thought about it in the parlour tonight,why do we milk in the winter? My milk cheque is slightly over half the value of my May cheque yet my meal bill is four times my May meal bill. Madness,utter madness.
Aye this winter milk lark is a waste of time, im on the slow route to spring calving lakelands 5cent a litre is not nearly enough to make it worthwhile.
Back in the day when the Dublin District Milk Board set the price of liquid milk it was properly paid for when the meal went up so did the milk price . A medicore harvest is on the cards imho and when the nut price goes through the roof you will end up milking for the meal man . Many down here are voting with their feet and exiting the winter game. If the Northern cousins start to swing to spring calving it might just force the management at lakelands and other co - ops to pay a decent premuim over 5 or 6 months not four . Every time the issue was raised the lakelands management and nodding dog boards smug reply was " we dont need your milk we can get all we need in the North without paying big winter bonus " .
 

The Agrarian

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
I agree that winter pricing is now a farce. And one of the reasons is out of our coops hands. Market protection is largely gone, and global price cycles have superseded the local one that used to give a better winter price. Perhaps the new zealand structure of a projected seasonal payout is the way to go? Flat price with a proper winter bonus applied. Farmers would need good cash flow though, and run a decent cash surplus.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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