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Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter rc mx110
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lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Time to cut the cake.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Treat em mean and keep em keen
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Counter cyclical?
- Location
- South Molton
Butter fat sells!
Largest make up of auction, largest jump!
Largest make up of auction, largest jump!
That should at least stop the buggers from dropping it for the time being!
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Wouldn’t bet on it
In Potter's most recent newsletter, who is referred to as the UK's least liked milk buyer?
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Got to be freshways?
- Location
- Northumberland
Just had a friend on the phone asking for FM number
Seems the dairy he supplies have been on a A / B pricing. , with B being based on spot price.
Now that spot is heading for 30 they have decided to do away with A /B.
Farmers could put up with a B price of 16p at times if 6 months later the B price was 32p, when it was a reasonable reflection of the current market.
No wonder producers have a jaundiced view of processors.
Seems the dairy he supplies have been on a A / B pricing. , with B being based on spot price.
Now that spot is heading for 30 they have decided to do away with A /B.
Farmers could put up with a B price of 16p at times if 6 months later the B price was 32p, when it was a reasonable reflection of the current market.
No wonder producers have a jaundiced view of processors.
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Did that same producer leave his previous buyer because they would be .5p better off though?
- Location
- Northumberland
I could not possibly comment
I thats it
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Did you tell your friend that's exactly what FM did when they had an A/B pricing system?
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Are they hoping fm are recruiting?
- Location
- Northumberland
Aye, & I rang them at the time & told them what I thought, not that it did any good
Bramble
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Mysteriously Freshways have now done away with the 60/40 split of their A price of 24p for July (60% of milk paid on the A price, 40% paid on spot price). Suited them quite well when the spot price was 10p for April and 11p for May. Their headline price of 24p was only achievable if you supplied 60% of your ‘allowed‘ volume. If you only filled your allowed volume their headline price was nearer 18-18.5ppl for those 2 months.
Not sure all the markets for their milk returned immediately on July 1st though (were all the Costas/Wetherspoons open then??) or was the spot price just exceeding the A price and they didn’t want the farmer to get the extra from the spot market?? Not that I’m cynical or anything!!
Dairy contract reform consultation anyone??
I expect a lot of the milk that Freshways has lost in the last few weeks as farmers left is being sold back to them by the new buyers at spot prices!!
Not sure all the markets for their milk returned immediately on July 1st though (were all the Costas/Wetherspoons open then??) or was the spot price just exceeding the A price and they didn’t want the farmer to get the extra from the spot market?? Not that I’m cynical or anything!!
Dairy contract reform consultation anyone??
I expect a lot of the milk that Freshways has lost in the last few weeks as farmers left is being sold back to them by the new buyers at spot prices!!
- Location
- Northumberland
Have they lost many farmers? Or have many stayed?
That's disgusting
I thats it
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We pushed really hard when spot went dear had 40% on B litres presuming we'd be well rewarded. How wrong were we, like you they heard about it from me and it also did no good.