Milkcow365
Member
- Location
- Sw Scotland
about 5 here 6 at weekends
Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter rc mx110
- Start date
We’re getting to a point where producing food from our land is bottom of the pile. Pension funds, investors, renewable’s, tree’s, development and tourism. Don’t worry tho boys the price is more than attractive enough to keep the 500+ cow herds here firing on.
Holsteinfriesian90
Member
- Location
- Cornwall
But whoever we are whatever walk of life we all need food surly that should be top of the pile not the bottom.
100% agree and it’ll come to a head sooner rather than later now. Tree’s covering everything here and now our first farm in planning to convert to a solar farm on the coast.
The average of a farmer being in the 60s has a fair bit to do with that. Crack on
All a bit smoke & mirrors that statistic though
I'm over 60, still do around 56 hrs/week on farm but son (34) is the farmer in reality and makes the majority of the decisions and deals with 90% of the sh!t
- Location
- Northumberland
You are in a good place. I am 62 and son is just 16.Too big a gap to help him on his way but i dont really want him to farm,at least not for his main income.
- Location
- Northumberland
Very similar situation here, I`m over 70 & probably do 40 hours a week. 2 sons in their 40`s run the job. 1 the cows, `tother the milk bottling. Teenage grandson thinking of getting involved
Like to think if I expired tomorrow the wheels would keep turning with minimal disruption.
Told them to chuck my ashes in the fert spreader to get a final bit of benefit from me
- Location
- somerset
on the news this morning, we are, apparently, stopping growing wheat, for bread, instead we are growing it for animals, because its cheaper FFS
did have a farmer explaining about the cost of fert, but after the crass remarks.
did have a farmer explaining about the cost of fert, but after the crass remarks.
Very similar situation here, I`m over 70 & probably do 40 hours a week. 2 sons in their 40`s run the job. 1 the cows, `tother the milk bottling. Teenage grandson thinking of getting involved
Like to think if I expired tomorrow the wheels would keep turning with minimal disruption.
Told them to chuck my ashes in the fert spreader to get a final bit of benefit from me
Getting spread on the farm too.
I expect that will be the sour bit that never "does" ....
TheRanger
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
46ppl. Miles behind, sooner Arla open their doors the better
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
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?
I do wonder if it was a clever (very clever) marketing move by them to push retailers into price increases because "even they" are short of milk?
- Location
- somerset
we live in a different world to, 'big' business, one can imagine cut throat negotiations, the major retailers, are hard nosed barstewards, when it comes down to price, a penny on milk, to them, is 1p x however many litres, of milk, they sell per day, suspect its quite a substantial amount. And of course they want to keep prices low, to attract customers.
We would be like lambs, if we had to deal with them direct.
But as we have seen, to compete, and secure their supply of milk, they are now behind the manufacturing price, positive they don't like that, so they have been forced to raise their prices.
It just shows, they can no longer dominate the pricing, in reality, they have changed from price setters, to price takers, don't expect they expected that. And as we look at prices, we receive for some of our products now, we should realise there is, only one thing, that is driving them, and that is restraint on supply. Long may it continue.
You seen many Arla farms cutting numbers.
Bramble
Member
All Arla have to do is carry out their spring ‘threat’ to export milk to Europe from the U.K. for processing. If they halved deliveries to supermarkets they would soon get their attention.
I know they’ll be a lot of guff about ‘long term relationships’ etc, but Arla need to show they can be as ruthless as the supermarkets have been over the last 20 years. Supermarkets are all about short term (6 months) profit for themselves, it’s pretty much all their product managers focus on. And they have been VERY good at it
- Location
- Scotland
They must have lost quite a few suppliers in the last 3 years though, a press release from 2019 states 2500 UK suppliers now under 2100.
cattow
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire J11 M42
I have a waiting list of Arla farmer’s wanting to buy mine
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
No but I have seen them selling up due to retirement or other issues though!
Can’t see many Welsh Arla suppliers, not that we’re many in number, putting cows on with the looming NVZ/ anti pollution/ production quota coming down the tracks.