Arla

O'Reilly

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i think we are trying to appease the wrong people and generally the more militant vegans are driving our standards. Rather than our customers who actually buy the milk. I do wonder if supermarkets just want vat fermented products 3d printed in store. That will bear the name of animal products but be nutritionally far crapper. It seams to be done under the slogan of it being enviromentally friendly if it is or not.
You'd be surprised at the people who are put off by tales of killing calves. The mechanic who looks after our cars was on about it, says he's vegetarian can't bring himself to give up cheese thankfully, and he would not be your usual limp wristed lefty millennial, he's in his fifties. It is an issue.
 

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
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Pembs
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pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
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M6 Hard shoulder
It does make me laugh how Arla is now considered irrelevant when it comes to milk price. It wasn’t too long ago we were being blamed for keeping the price down!
Not by me, I just feel they have reached a level where they will increase their market organically without the need to tout for suppliers
 
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cumbria
I kid you not, ive had a chap in my yard saying arla need to start recruiting inorder to keep the price up as Muller, et al. are getting it to easy.

Told him that I don't think that's in the pipeline for a while, but would he switch if it were?.
Oh no, I just want my price to go up was the reply.
 

jerseycowsman

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Livestock Farmer
Location
cornwall
Arla price is becoming a little irrelevant in my opinion as they are not recruiting and probably won't be for some time so the other buyers don't really need to chase them ?
Good grief, why are you trying to talk your own price down? Arla’s is incredibly relevant, barbaas would be using it to drop the price if Arla was putting it down
 

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