Dilemma !

dairyrow

Member
How long is a piece of string? Couldn't tell you but alot have signed up with yew tree around here. I'd have a look at first milk as a member as well.
 

dairyrow

Member
Yew tree might be the one for you. Meadow treated the guys around here really badly and pulled their contracts. Seam really happy with yew tree. Don't really know anything about county milk
 
Location
cumbria
Meadow shafted a few up here also, so I wouldn't recommend them on that basis.
Know nothing about County, but their reports seem to be 100% negative so far.

That leaves Yew Tree, only worry I have about them is that there has been a fair bit of expansion. I do wonder if they will reach some sort of critical mass. Not that I have seen or heard any evidence of that I hasten to add.
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Meadow shafted a few up here also, so I wouldn't recommend them on that basis.
Know nothing about County, but their reports seem to be 100% negative so far.

That leaves Yew Tree, only worry I have about them is that there has been a fair bit of expansion. I do wonder if they will reach some sort of critical mass. Not that I have seen or heard any evidence of that I hasten to add.

Yew tree are just like farmers milking more cows,marginal litres etc...
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Meadow shafted a few up here also, so I wouldn't recommend them on that basis.
Know nothing about County, but their reports seem to be 100% negative so far.

That leaves Yew Tree, only worry I have about them is that there has been a fair bit of expansion. I do wonder if they will reach some sort of critical mass. Not that I have seen or heard any evidence of that I hasten to add.

Heard a rumour that someone may be able to confirm that Yewtree are looking at putting a factory in at Aberdeen
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
I know it's probably of no help in this scenario, but I wouldn't consider milking cows in an area that wasn't an established milk field with a choice of strong buyers
a very valid point, know a couple, who had a vg offer, for their farm, nearly done deal, on another, realised just in time, couldn't get a milk contract ! The 'off centre' milk buyers, don't seem to treat their producers overly fairly.
 

frederick

Member
Location
south west
I'd rather pack in and have an easier life and let the milk buyer crooks rape someone else instead. The sooner these buyers realise that unless they start to pay a half decent sustainable price consistently, they will soon have no milk.
The only problem is this statement has been repeated most years for the last 20 years.
However here we are discussing the risk of entering a period of economic uncertainty with the significant possibility of a surplus of milk.

As farmers I certainly dont think we have ever sent processors and retailers a signal that production might drop below a level that they would struggle to cope and I dont think we ever will.
 

Enry

Member
Location
Shropshire
Heard a rumour that someone may be able to confirm that Yewtree are looking at putting a factory in at Aberdeen
I struggle to see why? limited milk field, and I would think not a cheap place to produce milk - powder market is a rollercoaster so building a factory where 30ppl is probably what's needed to make the job work seems like a mad move - build where there is an abundance of spring milk surely?
 

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