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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7122471" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>we don't fully realise, how super markets are actually run, control is with accountant nerds, sat behind a computer, they probably know, or want to know, sweet nothing about farming, all they care about, are figures, and profit. Any upward movement on product, is basically, if they HAVE to pay more to obtain it, which is usually a shortage. This applies to all products. Forget what headline news says, price is controlled by those nerds.</p><p> As a farmer, pretty well as far back as i can remember, we have moaned about price with good reason. But, food supply, is political as well, which is the reason for subs, to compensate, for lower prices, laugh, and also the reason, for grants, for technology, and environment, to help us continue to produce food, we can compare prices from 25 years back, basically same today, but yield has increased, the result, more product, at same price ! But, milk, price cut, we moan, but still produce the milk, to those faceless nerds, this computes as, we lower price, milk keeps coming, lower again, and again, and it still comes. What would we think, if the boot was on the other foot ? The only way, to raise prices, is to produce less, and i cannot see that happening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7122471, member: 86168"] we don't fully realise, how super markets are actually run, control is with accountant nerds, sat behind a computer, they probably know, or want to know, sweet nothing about farming, all they care about, are figures, and profit. Any upward movement on product, is basically, if they HAVE to pay more to obtain it, which is usually a shortage. This applies to all products. Forget what headline news says, price is controlled by those nerds. As a farmer, pretty well as far back as i can remember, we have moaned about price with good reason. But, food supply, is political as well, which is the reason for subs, to compensate, for lower prices, laugh, and also the reason, for grants, for technology, and environment, to help us continue to produce food, we can compare prices from 25 years back, basically same today, but yield has increased, the result, more product, at same price ! But, milk, price cut, we moan, but still produce the milk, to those faceless nerds, this computes as, we lower price, milk keeps coming, lower again, and again, and it still comes. What would we think, if the boot was on the other foot ? The only way, to raise prices, is to produce less, and i cannot see that happening. [/QUOTE]
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