He supplies Arla
Bad day for some Scottish dairy farms
- Thread starter upnortheast
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He supplies Arla
- Location
- Northumberland
In Potter`s news page from yesterday http://www.ipaquotas.com/QUOTANEWS.htm
He suggests Muller were aware of and approved most of the expansion & Muller producers have to provide a production prediction for 12 months ahead.
So they should have been aware of how much milk was coming their way well in advance
He suggests Muller were aware of and approved most of the expansion & Muller producers have to provide a production prediction for 12 months ahead.
So they should have been aware of how much milk was coming their way well in advance
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Talking to a Muller CO-OP producer today and he was saying that at a recent producer meeting Muller had said there were 225 CO-OP producers, 25 in Scotland producing more than all the ones south of the border.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Not sticking up for them in any way but just because you know how much milks coming doesn't always mean they can sell the end product.
I wonder if they lost/didn't get some sales orders they were expecting, or were they just planning to sell on any excess?
Little squeak
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- Location
- Lancashire
If the link which kiwi pom put up is correct the Kintyre producers have been let off the hook , for now at least....."The good news consolation for those 29 farmers is that going forward they will continue to have their milk collected and paid for by First Milk at the Co-op’s member price with no additional haulage charge unlike some others in Scotland!"
I don’t believe that. None are excessively big in this area. We are just a couple of farms away from being a coop farmer. That is the one aligned contract I would like but pool is static so if one gives up others take up the slack. I don’t think coop milk is segregated as I’m sure it is sometimes in our tanker.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
The farmer who told me is not known for exaggeration or bulls**t, I believe he was told it, wether by a Muller or CO-OP employee I don’t know, you are right about the non segregation of milk, mine has been known to contaminate their supply too.?
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
The farmer who told me is not known for exaggeration or bulls**t, I believe he was told it, wether by a Muller or CO-OP employee I don’t know, you are right about the non segregation of milk, mine has been known to contaminate their supply too.?
This is exactly the point that we were trying to make. Muller won’t provide the farmer board with evidence of the rumoured 25% increase in Scottish production. AHDB have confirmed that Scottish production is only up 4% during the same period. No other processors have lost that amount of volume.
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Of the ones I can think of locally one at Sanquhar gave up, Cumnock ones one milking about 120 cows and one milking 200 odd. I didn’t think the Glasgow ones were big either. The ones south of the border must be milking 20 cows each.
Morgatroid
New Member
That figure can't be right. Also, there are now now around 175 coop producers in the UK.
Scoobyscotlad
Member
Take as a conservative average 1million litre producer x 200 = 200million litres, 25 Scottish to be producing more would need them to average 8million each??? Utter tosh and fake news if it was said by Müller
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
I wouldn’t disagree one bit and neither would I question the integrity of the farmer who told me.
I can imagine what’s going on in Scotland would be a topic for conversation at any meeting with Muller, I don’t know if what I’m told they said was as a statement in a presentation or in response to conversation/questioning or indeed if it came from a Muller or CO-OP employee.
I shall try to find out in market next week if I see the farmer I spoke to yesterday.
Scoobyscotlad
Member
Even Potter seems to agree when it comes to figures and Müller.
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Sorry to hear that, it must come as a heck of a blow.
Doubt you’ve got anything to lose by not signing and returning.
Aye. Makes no odds whether it’s signed or not according to the bit in bold - last paragraph
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
We used to supply wisemans and then muller for a couple of years there letters seam to have become more brutal and factual as time went on, you wander if muller ever really understood the business he purchased for wisemans.
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Plus one, Wisemans were a far better firm to supply
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
I honestly cant think of one negative thing to say about wisemans, gave us our first contract with only 17 cows, they traveled 30 miles extra for those few leatres, grew numbers steadily over time and always felt proud to supply them, they sent cards in post for birth of our children and always great to deal with.Muller got rid of the great farm rep we had, cant think of any suppliers in the area now.