- Location
- East meath/dublin
Never a truer word spoken !! Just look at the dyfunctional state of the milk job with the favoured few on " premium contracts " while the rest bring up the rear on so called non alighned contracts .divided we fall ....... never truer than in uk agriculture
No farmer is big enough to gain the benefits that a well run buying group or dare i say it CO- OP ?? can for its members .
Anyway no supplier is going to give stuff away but nothing wrong with forcing a few efficencies on them by clubbing together
The IFA grain commitee used to always publish the price comparisons for all the major chemicals on a regional basis and while no suppliers were named farmers could join the dots and know who was selling cheapest .
Without farmers provoiding the grain commitee with the best quotes the could get it wouldnt work .
Knowledge is power and wouldnt a tenner soon become a hundred with a little of it .