Covid 19.. Milk price impact?

jondear

Member
Location
Devon
While we are having a moan, drop the key worker bollox. We aren't doing anything different to if covid19 wasnt here. People wanting recognition for getting up to milk the cows is pathetic. The NHS staff on the front line are the key workers, risking all. The farmers and lorry drivers are just doing what they did a month ago. Makes me cringe to see people on social media asking the public to clap for farmers. Ffs
Agreed .Try wearing a dust mask for more than an hour !it's horrible
Then wear it all day like your life depended on it!True heroes!
 

Samherd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Sussex
A bit pointless reducing supply if the lad across the water comes in to fill the gap and can do it at half the cost.

I agree but.... The question begs how is the lad across the water filling that gap... That's what we need to ask ourselves, how are they managing to do things and so easily by the looks of things..... And also import this food... I mean that has got to go on top of production costs somewhere along the line and still be cheap.... Mmmm now that makes me wonder.... Glad all my meats come from the local farm shop (neighbours farm) at least we know what we're eating for sure..... Shame Joe public really have no idea half the time at all
 

deere 6600

Member
Mixed Farmer
I agree but.... The question begs how is the lad across the water filling that gap... That's what we need to ask ourselves, how are they managing to do things and so easily by the looks of things..... And also import this food... I mean that has got to go on top of production costs somewhere along the line and still be cheap.... Mmmm now that makes me wonder.... Glad all my meats come from the local farm shop (neighbours farm) at least we know what we're eating for sure..... Shame Joe public really have no idea half the time at all
Best post I've seen for a while
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
I've cut cow no's by 5% in 24 hrs and guess what, milks gone up ?
when quota's came in, sent 36 to kill, 2 weeks later, sent another 36, milk was back up. To achieve our required cut in production, I can't remember by how much, we had to cull 72 cows, out of a herd of 200, some were cull anyway, and we had a lot of hfrs, but a lesson was learnt then, often ignored, but always correct, smaller groups do better, and we all carry some cows !
 
USA dairy farmers are also dumping milk, is that true ?
A US dairy farmer on here may be able to tell more,But I was out in the US in Jan and a couple of the big processors out there had gone into administration I think so there seemed to already be trouble a foot before the coronavirus so wouldn’t surprise me if they dumping milk.
 
when quota's came in, sent 36 to kill, 2 weeks later, sent another 36, milk was back up. To achieve our required cut in production, I can't remember by how much, we had to cull 72 cows, out of a herd of 200, some were cull anyway, and we had a lot of hfrs, but a lesson was learnt then, often ignored, but always correct, smaller groups do better, and we all carry some cows !
So you culled 1/3 of your cows and the milk went up? Other factors came into play here no doubt!
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
So you culled 1/3 of your cows and the milk went up? Other factors came into play here no doubt!
yes, distribution of the quota, between a rented farm, l/lord and owned farm, dairy on both, and partnership, but basically, we had to many cows, and I/c hfrs, around, losing some of 'our' quota, to the l/lord on the tenanted farm, didn't help, but dairyman was on a contract, pp/l, so he was all for pushing numbers up, old man didn't worry to much, an important lesson was learnt, numbers affect space, space affects performance, the less of one, more of the other, but like most, smaller lots of young stock, always do better than big ones.
 

Bramble

Member
DEFRA announced yesterday that competition laws affecting the processors have been ’temporarily relaxed’ much in line with what happened with the supermarkets a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully this will allow some of them to co-operate a bit and stabilise the ex-Farm price over the next few months. The easy thing to start with is rationalising transport costs. Ignore all the extra assurance stuff for Tesco’s, ArlaGarden etc and have less tankers doing less miles, think of the CO2 reduction!!!

Next thing will be the return of a Marketing Board for all sectors!!!?
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
DEFRA announced yesterday that competition laws affecting the processors have been ’temporarily relaxed’ much in line with what happened with the supermarkets a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully this will allow some of them to co-operate a bit and stabilise the ex-Farm price over the next few months. The easy thing to start with is rationalising transport costs. Ignore all the extra assurance stuff for Tesco’s, ArlaGarden etc and have less tankers doing less miles, think of the CO2 reduction!!!

Next thing will be the return of a Marketing Board for all sectors!!!?

Pretty sure that quite a lot of swopping already occurs - at least it does around here especially now Arla shut Llandrynog
 

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

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