Milk price drop!

Clay52

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Less = more. Farmers never learn.
Doesn’t work like that. Milk price will still go in cycles.

If you produce less someone else will produce more wether it’s your neighbor or a guy on the other side of the world.

What amount less in enough. Why aren’t you producing less than you are now? I’m sure the guy doing less production than you says you are producing too much.
 

yin ewe

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Co Antrim
I'm producing 20% less milk than this time last year, when am I going to get my more?

When you get everyone else to produce 20% less, good luck with that.
As has been said markets go up and down, production goes up and down, milk price goes up and down, it's the world we live in we just have to get used to it.
 

Clay52

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so why the need to protest then its a world market with a world supply

Personally I think protesting is a waste of time and reinforces the whinging farmer image. In my opinion working on my business would be a better use of time.

We know Dairy prices are cyclic. Like someone said previously. Save money in the high price times for the times when the price drops.
 
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How are the processors justifying price cuts? I assume the retail price isn't falling and the UK is still importing cheese?

If they're blaming a fall in the cream price should be remembered that the big processors turn it into butter (again is the retail price falling) and butter can be/is frozen until the prices pick up and of course that BF is less than 5% of the milk, so can't have a dis proportionate influence on prices.

Having worked for a major processor, I think farmers need to challenge price cuts rather than as seems to be the case blaming themselves
 

Clay52

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How are the processors justifying price cuts? I assume the retail price isn't falling and the UK is still importing cheese?

If they're blaming a fall in the cream price should be remembered that the big processors turn it into butter (again is the retail price falling) and butter can be/is frozen until the prices pick up and of course that BF is less than 5% of the milk, so can't have a dis proportionate influence on prices.

Having worked for a major processor, I think farmers need to challenge price cuts rather than as seems to be the case blaming themselves

Solids, the actual salable part of milk, fat is around 30-40% of the product. So it will have a significant effect on price.
 
How are the processors justifying price cuts? I assume the retail price isn't falling and the UK is still importing cheese?

If they're blaming a fall in the cream price should be remembered that the big processors turn it into butter (again is the retail price falling) and butter can be/is frozen until the prices pick up and of course that BF is less than 5% of the milk, so can't have a dis proportionate influence on prices.

Having worked for a major processor, I think farmers need to challenge price cuts rather than as seems to be the case blaming themselves
too much milk in Europe simples
 
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