Livestock event, main event

[Cowabunga]

Fair enough you think you get your levy back I don't! and would prefer not to pay them,I will have given them £10k in the last 10 years and had no option.

Yes, and what new knowledge do we have now that wasn't known ten or fifteen years ago?

 

[Thick Farmer]

Yes, and what new knowledge do we have now that wasn't known ten or fifteen years ago?

Don't trust First Milk!

 

[Cowabunga]

Don't trust First Milk!

. I certainly knew this 15 years ago.

The point is though, you didn't learn this from Dairyco. Or maybe you did and I missed that snippet of useful information from them?

 

[caveman]

Yes, and what new knowledge do we have now that wasn't known ten or fifteen years ago?

That eulb has given them £10k?

 

[Cowabunga]

That eulb has given them £10k?

Another case in point. You didn't learn that from Dairyco [even though industry statistics is one of their specialities]. No, you learnt that from the horse's mouth, namely eulb's.

So what new information or services, not freely available to Jonny Foreigner or through other free sources, have we had from Dairico apart from industry statistics [which surely cannot cost very much to collate]?

Being absolutely serious here. How do they actually justify their existence? Like most such organisations, their whole existence is dependant upon them justifying their existence and therefore a high proportion of everything they do must be to that end. Shall I summarise that in a nutshell? Better not.

 

[Tarw Coch]

How did the mdc/dairy co come about?

How can we do away with the parasite that is dairy co?

How did the MDC come about? you're stretching my memory here, going back to approximately the time of deregulation, but farmers all had a vote on wether to set it up and voted in favour IIRC about 60:40 on a turnout of about 1/3rd.

I wonder how many would vote to keep it today, I wonder how many of those that voted to set it up have since left the industry.

 

[Blue.]

How did the MDC come about? you're stretching my memory here, going back to approximately the time of deregulation, but farmers all had a vote on wether to set it up and voted in favour IIRC about 60:40 on a turnout of about 1/3rd.

I wonder how many would vote to keep it today, I wonder how many of those that voted to set it up have since left the industry.

Before my time then

One things for sure I'm not keen on giving them another £10/£15k.

 

[jade35]

I just wish they would do the most important job - keep advertising the benefits of milk and how to make best use of dairy products.

 

[Sid]

Well I had a nice discussion with Dairy co at the south west dairy event few years ago that they little for us organic dairy farmers, lo and behold they came came up with a press release that they were going to do certain stuff to help us. DOH!!

Our discussion group is chaired by a dairy co "rep,officer,facilitator" and tbh any one of us could do a better job!