Dairy farmers quitting the industry in high numbers.

jondear

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Devon
First farm guy was/is on here, believe they ran GEA robots, talking to Kivells during the week about farm availability with all these sales and nobody seems to want to sell up completely, think if interest rate climb market may lose it's heat, but what do I know 🤔🤣
Was that the farm where gea robots were installed as the first ones and had lots of problems ?If it was I remember going to the farm looking at the second hand Parlour!
 

sidjon

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EXMOOR
Was that the farm where gea robots were installed as the first ones and had lots of problems ?If it was I remember going to the farm looking at the second hand Parlour!
No, think they were one of the first with the Gea robots and parlour went in couple years ago, one lot went in near tiverton and were replaced with Lely .
 

supercow

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Location
Dumfriesshire
Can’t understand why you battle through so many hard times to get out when the milk price is at record levels. What is all the dairy land going into instead of dairy
 

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Whitewalker

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but are bred to give more, ours have milked well, and will be over 9, when aiming for 8, very good silage fed, l reckon, yield is more nutrition based, than genetic. Cows can be genetically capable of 12,000+, but nutrition dictates the amount that the cow actually gives.
Irrespective of what cows can be bred to give It’s not morally any better than farmers working 120 hours a week for bugger all
 

bigw

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Location
Scotland
Can’t understand why you battle through so many hard times to get out when the milk price is at record levels. What is all the dairy land going into instead of dairy

Because the bad times will be just round the corner again! Even though production is lower at the moment i expect there will be a fair resistance to more price rises from both consumer and retailer.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
Irrespective of what cows can be bred to give It’s not morally any better than farmers working 120 hours a week for bugger all
both occur though.
and quite right, the necessity to produce cheap food, is the reason for both, and again both would be better off, producing less.
As we see now, shortages of any product, inc milk, means higher prices
produce more, and the price goes down.
less milk, = less work =higher prices =happier wives.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
Because the bad times will be just round the corner again! Even though production is lower at the moment i expect there will be a fair resistance to more price rises from both consumer and retailer.
its quite simple, supply and demand, if supply cannot match demand, the price will go up, whether retailer, or consumer, like it or not. Pretty certain milk is going to used whatever the price, and its dirt cheap now.
milk is cheap, used as a loss leader, by retailers, who don't give a toss about producers, if customers want milk, the retailers will buy it, regardless of price.
 
Can’t understand why you battle through so many hard times to get out when the milk price is at record levels. What is all the dairy land going into instead of dairy

Maybe the family just want to retire? No sons or daughter to take the place on. Maybe they are frightened by the high input prices and realise the bigger risks they are facing. Maybe they are facing a 6 figure bill for a new slurry store which will do nothing for their bottom line whatsoever. Any reason is as individual as the next man.
 

supercow

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Dumfriesshire
Maybe the family just want to retire? No sons or daughter to take the place on. Maybe they are frightened by the high input prices and realise the bigger risks they are facing. Maybe they are facing a 6 figure bill for a new slurry store which will do nothing for their bottom line whatsoever. Any reason is as individual as the next man.
Agree.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 28 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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