Milk Price Tracker

[Farmer Keith]

Arla 34.64 4.47 3.73 top bands

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Arla 34.64 4.47 3.73 top bands

What sort of cows have you got? Very good quality.

 

[Farmer Keith]

What sort of cows have you got? Very good quality.

about 3/4s of the cows are British Friesian and 1/4 have some kiwi in them, we’ve been gaining around 0.1 a year on both F & P since I started down the Kiwi route, breeding the kiwi stuff back to Norwegian Red then put them back to BF and make some sort of a 3 way cross is the long term master plan, at the moment anyways. Mortality rate below 1% for the last 2 years and hardly using any ABs anymore. A far cry from where we were 10 years ago.

 

[ColinV6]

Arla hold for August.

 

[jackrussell101]

Dairy giant Arla says driver crisis hitting milk supply

Supermarket supplier Arla Foods says a lorry driver shortage has forced it to cut deliveries by up to 25%.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[dairyrow]

Dairy giant Arla says driver crisis hitting milk supply

Supermarket supplier Arla Foods says a lorry driver shortage has forced it to cut deliveries by up to 25%.

www.bbc.co.uk

There's been alot of workers working throughout the pandemic with very little thanks or financial renumeration for doing so. Is anyone really surprised by this?

 

[had e nuff]

Dairy giant Arla says driver crisis hitting milk supply

Supermarket supplier Arla Foods says a lorry driver shortage has forced it to cut deliveries by up to 25%.

www.bbc.co.uk

Got a lad in today doing some digger work, used to be on the wagons but said the hours,traffic and wages were crap.

 

[jackrussell101]

Labour is the elephant in the room in my opinion in the next few years

 

[Scholsey]

Labour is the elephant in the room in my opinion in the next few years

I think labour will be the new milk quota!

 

[coomoo]

I think labour will be the new milk quota!

The wages on offer up here are really good comparatively to other jobs yet people still don’t want to milk so definitely agree.

 

[had e nuff]

The wages on offer up here are really good comparatively to other jobs yet people still don’t want to milk so definitely agree.

I think the unsocial hours don't suit everyone. Getting up 4/4.30 and finishing after 6 at night.

 

[More to life]

Labour is the elephant in the room in my opinion in the next few years

I think it's bigger than an elephant

 

[Scholsey]

Must be a lot of 5shite jobs suffering from the merry go around of 5hite herdsmen/managers that would be getting past the point of no return or struggling to find agency staff to plug the gaps? How are firms like LKL managing to find staff?

 

[Fools Gold]

Must be a lot of 5shite jobs suffering from the merry go around of 5hite herdsmen/managers that would be getting past the point of no return or struggling to find agency staff to plug the gaps? How are firms like LKL managing to find staff?

Were far from a 5shite job but finding anyone reliable to do anything Is getting nearly impossible, have a great full time stockman who’ll do anything except milk and few really good part timers filling in as an extra to their full time jobs outside of farming but finding the other member of staff needed seems almost impossible, have spent money in past year to try and save on labour and make things quicker and easier without compromising welfare or quality. if I wasn’t prepared to milk cows every day we would likely be soon looking at exiting dairying.

 

[Sid]

Must be a lot of 5shite jobs suffering from the merry go around of 5hite herdsmen/managers that would be getting past the point of no return or struggling to find agency staff to plug the gaps? How are firms like LKL managing to find staff?

Seems to be same dairies looking for various staff on regular occasions in this area.
Some have a constant advert in place.

 

[kiwi pom]

There's been alot of workers working throughout the pandemic with very little thanks or financial renumeration for doing so. Is anyone really surprised by this?

I've heard from a few drivers over there that say they're pi**ed off because whilst agencies are offering much higher rates at the moment, the fulltime, employed drivers aren't really seeing any increase.
Add that to the stupidly long wait times at shippers and receivers and the way they are treated in general and they're getting fed up, especially as they generally all kept working during lockdowns to keep things moving.

 

[Water Wheel]

What is Spot market price at the moment, now we are entering the production low point for the year ?

 

[Bramble]

What is Spot market price at the moment, now we are entering the production low point for the year ?

32-34ppl according to milk prices.com. Been a similar level for the last couple of weeks. The strengthening pound won’t be helping U.K. prices

 

[frederick]

32-34ppl according to milk prices.com. Been a similar level for the last couple of weeks. The strengthening pound won’t be helping U.K. prices

As far as I can see money markets have been very stable for months.

 

[pappuller]

What is Spot market price at the moment, now we are entering the production low point for the year ?

Our b litre price for July should be in excess of 30ppl. Buying in milk during the week has been touching 35ppl, selling milk out at a weekend down as low as 25ppl