Milk Price Tracker

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Coca-Cola still flying off the shelves at £1.50 per litre… plenty of room for increase s in staple items like milk

up to £1.35 for four pints in the supermarkets…. Which is where we were 10ths ago!

If I was a betting man, I’d say that a highish percentage would buy coke before milk … we are rubbish at promoting the benefits of milk and dairy products
 

Martyn

Member
Location
South west
Yeah but I do wonder if we are not at the top of the curve .. or certainly very close
I couldn't agree more, but people seam to keep finding money to spend, I was five minutes early to do school run today & and our 06 plate Hilux was the oldest vehicle by a mile there, endless 21-22 volvo/BMW/electric cars, this is a normal county school, I don't think they will really be looking at milk price, probably their fuel bills though.
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Serious shortage of milk about, @Sid can you upload recent chart showing this year Vers last year's production

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Any good @Martyn ?
 

Martyn

Member
Location
South west
Our milk is being taken to Taw valley, normally up to Westbury for us , milk is short being the reason
We had phone calls from three milk buyers in the last 10 days, only one I contacted, both the other I would of spoken to when looking at contacts befor converting to Organic. We are small producers but guess trying their luck.
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
We had phone calls from three milk buyers in the last 10 days, only one I contacted, both the other I would of spoken to when looking at contacts befor converting to Organic. We are small producers but guess trying their luck.
Milk buyers will be like bank managers and their umbrellas , wait until it starts raining milk, they will all want their brollies back!
 

Bramble

Member
Think the 50p from Freshways may well give an idea of the top of the market, if I had to guess.
I’m not sure they’ll quite make it. The letter said ‘aspire to’ but milkprices.com we’re reporting it as ’confirmed’ after speaking to the company.

Basically they are short of milk (as are others) and need to recruit, but they need a spectacular headline price to grab everyone’s attention and to try and get everyone to forget about their treatment of suppliers in the past.

Similar to politicians promising all sorts of things but come the time to deliver there will be an excuse as to why they couldn’t deliver. If everyone is paying 50p in Sept they can claim they were leading the market, if everyone is paying 40p in Sept I bet Freshways will be 39p and be talking about ‘market returns’.

I’d be happy with 45-50p for the winter, but I won’t be sending any more milk than last year. I’ve got better things to spend money on than a load more cows and their associated infrastructure
 

Tim G

Member
Livestock Farmer
We'll see, as mentioned above GDT not looking too tricky but milk here in the UK is short. I think it will make 50p on farm but unsure it'll get much above. Time will tell.
There are, I think, two questions.
1 - How much will the consumers pay?
2 - How higher does the farmgate price need to be before enough people put some extra cows on?
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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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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