Black Top Milk scheme launched by the Free Range Milk Marketing Board

[llamedos]

That is dark green

Please tell me you are not an electrician in your spare time

 

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That is dark green

Please tell me you are not an electrician in your spare time

 

[In the pit]

A whole 100 days? or nights as well. When you say graze do you mean have access to a field or actually have to eat grass and it makes up the main part of their DMI or smoke and mirrors ?

Just said in local paper "100 days grazing"

 

[Sid]

Thanks for pointing out the typo.

Could you explain what you mean by "Like the "black farmer " sausages" thanks.

http://www.theblackfarmer.com/

 

[Tonka]

Thanks just was just going by the pictures on the twitter feedView attachment 458408

That's got a green top..................

 

[Farmer1001]

You and i must be the ONLY dairy farmers in the country that think that!

Make that 3 of us.

 

[Farmer1001]

https://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/market-in...-consumption/liquid-milk-market/#.WIIW32anzMI

Demand is not growing according to the data from AHDB! Are you going to grow the milk market or just take market share from somewhere else? The latter is simple the former need big bucks!

At the end of the day getting the consumer to spend more for the same product with a twist is the key, they did it in Australia with specific pain killers for headache,backache,period pains but it was the same product just labeled differently!

Demand for "dairy" is growing but consumption of "real dairy" dropping with 2% lost in past 2 years from retail fresh milk. Explains why shelf space for "other" dairy is now bigger than real dairy. If we sit and watch then we will lose more market. Its a no brainer, brand it, promote it, sell it and whatever the demand dont over supply it. I bought a glass "shower panel" once for £300, could have bought a "pane of toughened glass" for £150 but insisted on buying a "shower panel" and not a "pane of glass". Branding works!!

 

[JP1]

@runny egg 's campaign may just reflect the fact that he's trying to raise the marketing bar and move beyond commodity status. Maybe one day every farmer may have to undertake a certain amount of marketing just to sell produce - happens in other industries

 

[Sid]

Just out of interest @runny egg why did you launch when most of the cows that produce the milk are housed?Wouldn't it be better to take the press to see cows in grass with sun in the spring?

 

[Farmer1001]

Just out of interest @runny egg why did you launch when most of the cows that produce the milk are housed?Wouldn't it be better to take the press to see cows in grass with sun in the spring?

First because we dont pretend cows are always out and 2nd the momentum is building towards making turnout a huge spectacle, deliberate plan.

 

[bar718]

@runny egg , please don't take this as a criticism but in alot of the talk around this subject I see and the talk of how you are trying to be like the free range eggs versus battery hens , can producers still house there cows at night as free range hens are shut inside at nights and also due to avian flu risks at present flock keepers are required to keep all there hens fastened up at present .
Just an observation.

 

[Farmer1001]

@runny egg , please don't take this as a criticism but in alot of the talk around this subject I see and the talk of how you are trying to be like the free range eggs versus battery hens , can producers still house there cows at night as free range hens are shut inside at nights and also due to avian flu risks at present flock keepers are required to keep all there hens fastened up at present .
Just an observation.

Our comparison with the FR egg industry is not about how hens are managed but how the egg market grew. Come to the farm meetings to learn more on the detail on grazing requirements.

 

[Sid]

Ouch!!
Potter didn't hold back on free range in his Dairy farmer article!

 

[Farmer1001]

Ouch!!
Potter didn't hold back on free range in his Dairy farmer article!

Unfortunately IP couldn`t make the meeting, he then wrote his article based on inaccuracies from the only organisation in the room who sought to spin the presentation into a retailer knocking exercise. Our response to the IP blog is posted at the bottom for anyone who wishes to read it. I have been in contact with Ian to correct him, maybe in future he will pick up the phone before he goes to press.

 

[Sid]

Unfortunately IP couldn`t make the meeting, he then wrote his article based on inaccuracies from the only organisation in the room who sought to spin the presentation into a retailer knocking exercise. Our response to the IP blog is posted at the bottom for anyone who wishes to read it. I have been in contact with Ian to correct him, maybe in future he will pick up the phone before he goes to press.

Being he is one of the industries biggest commentators maybe you should be in touch with him before?

 

[Farmer1001]

Being he is one of the industries biggest commentators maybe you should be in touch with him before?

Ian was invited to attend but due to NFSCo meetings could not make it, he has the ability to contact us anytime to seek clarity and we keep him posted. There is a limit to what we can do but will always try harder.

 

[ollie989898]

I like the idea of a wide spread dairy cow turnout event on a set day, brand that and flog it to the public, you could even charge for tickets if you wanted. That would be a huge game changer for milk per se I think, thousands of people turning up on dairy farms once a year. Don't wildlife parks or something do something similar?

 

[ollie989898]

@runny egg , please don't take this as a criticism but in alot of the talk around this subject I see and the talk of how you are trying to be like the free range eggs versus battery hens , can producers still house there cows at night as free range hens are shut inside at nights and also due to avian flu risks at present flock keepers are required to keep all there hens fastened up at present .
Just an observation.

By 2025 all battery cages will be outlawed anyway, in the UK at least. The legislation is already in place.

 

[bar718]

By 2025 all battery cages will be outlawed anyway, in the UK at least. The legislation is already in place.

Agree but I have yet to see a dairy cow kept in a cage regardless of management system .

 

[peclova]

I like the idea of a wide spread dairy cow turnout event on a set day, brand that and flog it to the public, you could even charge for tickets if you wanted. That would be a huge game changer for milk per se I think, thousands of people turning up on dairy farms once a year. Don't wildlife parks or something do something similar?

Nice idea, but hard to in practice - some years we can turn out in Mid-March other not until May, whilst on some land close to us you could graze for 365 days if you really had to, .