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All shareholders ? even the one's who have left ?
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supercow
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Well they are shareholders they have a right to know what’s happening with the business they have shares in surely
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First Milk members have an "evergreen" contract, this means First Milk must collect your milk so long as your within the quality guidelines (First Milk can't give it's members notice to leave), so whilst they are hoping to sell the Scottish creameries the members will still have there milk collected by first milk. The obvious ideal solution for first milk is to sell the creameries to someone who will buy the milk off first milk
Aye right !!!
Spoken like a true Council Member !!
They stuck the haulage charge up so much they almost managed to get rid of the producers in Bute, then before the new it they needed the milk and were desperate to keep them.
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I certainly aint a council member, and I know nothing of haulage charges we've never been charged them where we are. I do remember them having a haulage charge around LDC but I think they've stopped now, I could be wrong!
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How many days do the reps actually work ?
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How many days do the reps actually work ?
That is a very good question @Coo man . Our woman told us she meets the Board every quarter and they have monthly conference calls about budgets and financials . Apart from that I am not sure.
This would be better on a FM thread, perhaps the Council members who do read this could answer this question.
So probably 4 days meetings and 12 x 2 hour phone calls for £10,000 nice work if you can get it .
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Cuckoo's nest said: ↑
That is a very good question @Coo man . Our woman told us she meets the Board every quarter and they have monthly conference calls about budgets and financials . Apart from that I am not sure.
This would be better on a FM thread, perhaps the Council members who do read this could answer this question.
So probably 4 days meetings and 12 x 2 hour phone calls for £10,000 nice work if you can get it .
Pretty disrespectful chat yet again. Spiteful Shiite chat. My dad was an area rep for I don’t know how long. That was the start of him never being on the farm so for at least when Dad was doing it was 7 grand and I’d say that wasn’t enough. Every night farmers on the phone complaining about stuff and sometimes it was constant meetings. Do u ever ask what the arla reps do! I have a gay arla rep friend and I know he does absalutly nothing for his cash
@supercow I was an area rep with your dad and I had 8 member meetings twice a year and meetings with the board every 2 months in Haydock and I had about 190 members to look after and we had to make contact with every member in our area and log it !! There were 15 of us all looking after around 200 million litres each, if it were the same today we would only need around 4 on the member council. We don't here what they do we don't see what the do (some of it we can't ) but the communication of the Council is DIRE. FM had a member survey last year and only trusted us with 2 lines in a members update, again this year I have taken part in it again, but again we will not be trusted with all the answers.
Since FM did the deal with Adams (Ornua ) and lost the Wiseman/ Muller contract it is a diferent and smaller outfit, Mike Gallacher got rid of quite a few but they are still too top heavy, as someone else said too many on the gravy train !!
Since FM did the deal with Adams (Ornua ) and lost the Wiseman/ Muller contract it is a diferent and smaller outfit, Mike Gallacher got rid of quite a few but they are still too top heavy, as someone else said too many on the gravy train !!
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As members, shouldn't we be voicing our concerns to council they are supposed to "answer" to us. what annoys/amazes me is that the farmer directors who over saw the near bankruptcy of First Milk are still hanging around on council. I can hardly believe the nerve.
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And you forgot the Vice Chairman who completely forgot what the role and responsibility of a director is, and blamed the previous board,
and had the brass neck to wait around for the £55k vice chairman role. Parasite
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Why do we vote them in? Is it because no one else stands?
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"Pretty disrespectful chat yet again. Spiteful Shiite chat."
followed by
"Do u ever ask what the arla reps do! I have a gay arla rep friend and I know he does absalutly nothing for his cash"
Kind of ironic don't you think !
Bt the way I as you probably know am an Arla rep , I get day rates and mileage, thus if I do nothing I get paid nothing , I have a meeting tomorrow night , I will spend 4hrs in the car travelling and probably 3hrs in the meeting , I will get £77 for my time before tax which they remove at source , don't think it's the money that motivates farmers to be reps , which was your point about FM
"Pretty disrespectful chat yet again. Spiteful Shiite chat."
followed by
"Do u ever ask what the arla reps do! I have a gay arla rep friend and I know he does absalutly nothing for his cash"
Kind of ironic don't you think !
Bt the way I as you probably know am an Arla rep , I get day rates and mileage, thus if I do nothing I get paid nothing , I have a meeting tomorrow night , I will spend 4hrs in the car travelling and probably 3hrs in the meeting , I will get £77 for my time before tax which they remove at source , don't think it's the money that motivates farmers to be reps , which was your point about FM
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Not that friendly he’s just a typical arla man!!! Gotta keep your distance with those boys
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I would second that
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A question for the FM AGM if anyone is going, if its at 7.30 pm why can't those of us who can't travel join in through a live video link and do it from our own office or kitchen table.
We would here it all form the top team and be able to email questions and get answers.
We would here it all form the top team and be able to email questions and get answers.
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Another question for anyone who is going, How long are ALL members going to have to fund the investments in the creameries before we ALL share in the benefits (part of a Co-op)
At the moment there are 3 different clubs within FM, the Haverfordwest club who get about 2.5p more than the rest of us from Tesco and then there is the Nestle club which is about the same 2.5p
Then there is the Mugs club who get paid less than them, but fund all the investments to the same tune as the one's who benefit.
At the moment there are 3 different clubs within FM, the Haverfordwest club who get about 2.5p more than the rest of us from Tesco and then there is the Nestle club which is about the same 2.5p
Then there is the Mugs club who get paid less than them, but fund all the investments to the same tune as the one's who benefit.
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Do they get an extra 2.5p that's a fair lump and would come in quite handy!!
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Tcg suplement is 1.5 ppl and not everyone in Haverfordwest gets it.
Were you at the AGM how did it go ? @Spudley