- Location
- Pembrokeshire
It’s amazing how touchy the Ayr ,all year housed boys are
Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter rc mx110
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Martyn
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- Location
- South west
We could play a new game, let’s put up what this years tax bill is then everyone can say how well or not we are doing, or how good or poor you accountant isAnyone else willing to put their (very vague) business details on here so people can pull it apart, pick fault & tell them they’re doing it all wrong?
- Location
- God's side of the border.
One lad in our group once suggested tax/litre on the CFPWe could play a new game, let’s put up what this years tax bill is then everyone can say how well or not we are doing, or how good or poor you accountant is
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
I quite like that. I would list tax avoidance as one of my top hobbies.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Well I’ll kick it off then, we’ll mine starts with a £4!!!!!We could play a new game, let’s put up what this years tax bill is then everyone can say how well or not we are doing, or how good or poor you accountant is
Or how right the grass boys always are.......
Homesy
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- Location
- North West Devon
Well clearly you two don't have brains. 1,700 cows x14,000 ltrs = 23,800,000 ltrs. £1,000,000 / 23,800,000 = £0.042 per litre or 4.2p/litre. Certainly not horrendous but that would equate to 500 cows x 5000 ltrs spending £105k on wages not £10k
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Some smart cop math’s recently… costa just dealt with us fineReal world issues right there folks
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
- Location
- North West
Relax this is the internet not real life.
Wouldn’t want to be the wives/partners of the ones that think there’s only one way of doing something. Must be pretty monotonous at times…
Too bloody highWe could play a new game, let’s put up what this years tax bill is then everyone can say how well or not we are doing, or how good or poor you accountant is
, thinking of moving the cow's to the cayman islands 
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
I think it would be a shock to many. Debt tolerance is a very odd phenomena, deeply rooted in emotion.Anyone else willing to put their (very vague) business details on here so people can pull it apart, pick fault & tell them they’re doing it all wrong?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Tbf maccies coffee has gone up fair in the last year or so
- Location
- North Devon
What the low cost grass only peeps on here forget is it’s the other calving pattern/housing herds that prop up their milk price. If everyone was grass only there’d be too much milk when everyone is pumping it out and very little during the winter. Factories would have to close or import during the lean months and milk would struggle to find a home during the spring. It’s more important to worry about what you’re doing and do it well however you do it than the farm over the hedge.
- Location
- somerset
seasonality originally was to level out the milk supply throughout the year, the same as the old intervention system on lambs etc, and it worked.
but it wasn't meant to cope with the spring grazing herds, and it hasn't. Hence we have A&B quotas, graduated seasonality.
the original aim, was to keep a level supply, throughout the year, to keep the processing plants working at optimum levels, and that is still the same today.
And is probably forgotten/not realised, by some farmers, when they decide on how they wish to produce their milk. In any business, the customer is always right, they buy our product.
The market will decide where prices will be, and that won't be influenced by us, we have to produce, what our customers want, and not what we think they want. They want level supply, to enable them to work at optimum usage, all year round.
but it wasn't meant to cope with the spring grazing herds, and it hasn't. Hence we have A&B quotas, graduated seasonality.
the original aim, was to keep a level supply, throughout the year, to keep the processing plants working at optimum levels, and that is still the same today.
And is probably forgotten/not realised, by some farmers, when they decide on how they wish to produce their milk. In any business, the customer is always right, they buy our product.
The market will decide where prices will be, and that won't be influenced by us, we have to produce, what our customers want, and not what we think they want. They want level supply, to enable them to work at optimum usage, all year round.
@Spear I was getting just over 30p a litre in May with seasonality but peaked at £9 per cow per day from £1 of concentrates. I am now getting 45p a litre, getting paid just under £7 a cow a day from 90p concentrates. I have learnt not to worry too much about seasonality. I think its good to have variety, no problem with AYR calving, suits a lot of people, I am not organised enough to do it. I don't think AYR calvers do it or should do it to prop up the milk price.