Milk Price Tracker

[Farmer Keith]

35ppl is where milk price needs to be atm for a sustainable future for the industry

Not sure where this standardised figure comes from with regard to production costs, as we’re all aware every farm is different, plenty making it work well below 30ppl right now or they simply wouldn’t be there. Funny how it’s the people trying to flog us feed we don’t need or shiny stuff to ride around on are often the ones claiming “we need 35ppl to be sustainable”

 

[lazy farmer]

Labour, contract, fuel, feed, chems, land, meds, holidays?

If I start to answer these questions I will be accused of being either an “I’m alright jack” or a smug git. So I won’t.

 

[In the pit]

Labour, contract, fuel, feed, chems, land, meds, holidays?

All the places were savings could be made!!!!

 

[jackrussell101]

Do things differently?

Trouble is you can only do so much.

From your posts you strike me as running a fairly good tight ship, but could you produce milk for 15p continually?

Exactly, and that's basically what's happening now.

Just had my fert rep from ACT on the phone this afternoon, Nitram is now £370 a tonne and Imported £355... what can we do? Go organic? It won't work...

 

[jackrussell101]

McDonald's short of milk to make the milk shakes yet Arla are having to drop the milk price because of inflationary pressures... the British dairy industry really is sh1t

 

[jackrussell101]

Sheep have been good
Beefs on fire
Arable farmers are having a good time
Why is our milk price so cr4p?

 

[jackrussell101]

I think even aligned contracts at 32p don't look overly sparky given where the costs are now heading

 

[Scholsey]

Every other industry has passed cost of increased haulage/labour etc down the chain, agricultural primary producers seem to be the only ones who aren’t allowed to, if this carries on there will be a lot of highly paid lorry drivers without anything to deliver!

 

[In the pit]

Trouble is you can only do so much.

From your posts you strike me as running a fairly good tight ship, but could you produce milk for 15p continually?

Exactly, and that's basically what's happening now.

Just had my fert rep from ACT on the phone this afternoon, Nitram is now £370 a tonne and Imported £355... what can we do? Go organic? It won't work...

Clover and make much more use of slurry/fym then cut down on nitrogen
P&k and lime should all be on the button aswell

 

[jackrussell101]

But all other ag commodities are buoyant other than non-aligned milk

 

[jackrussell101]

Clover and make much more use of slurry/fym then cut down on nitrogen
P&k and lime should all be on the button aswell

Ah that's what it is, knew I was doing something wrong

 

[lazy farmer]

Trouble is you can only do so much.

From your posts you strike me as running a fairly good tight ship, but could you produce milk for 15p continually?

Exactly, and that's basically what's happening now.

Just had my fert rep from ACT on the phone this afternoon, Nitram is now £370 a tonne and Imported £355... what can we do? Go organic? It won't work...

15p is that written so I have to agree with you?
fert will have used 20 tons less this yr on the same area and grown more grass. Yes it’s a grassy yr but accumulating along side that is much better use of our pokey dirty water and compost. We usually buy extra maize won’t have to do that this yr. had to feed a 16% cake last summer due to local climate issues this yr 13/14 % so Our feed cost are actually lower currently. Our tractor use is about an hour a day currently so less fuel is being used. Took personal responsibility yrs ago. Most things that go wrong here are my fault and as such I look to improve them not blame things outside of my control.
that’s why I’m wandering down to the cows now to put an extra litre of vegetable oil in the trough as the amount of clover in their currEnt paddock for a the most I have ever seen and it’s a bit scary! As well as docks!they have already been in here two hrs nothings blown yet!

 

[lazy farmer]

One other thing. We will probably produce 50,000 litres less this yr and I couldn’t care less as the unit cost of the litres we have produced has fallen more.

 

[In the pit]

A lot of farmers just tick along doing the same as their dad did and there dad before that and their dad before that and moan about the milk price being too low
If you give them 10 pence more there cop will rise 10 pence and they will want another 10 pence

 

[lazy farmer]

A lot of farmers just tick along doing the same as their dad did and there dad before that and their dad before that and moan about the milk price being too low
If you give them 10 pence more there cop will rise 10 pence and they more

Perversely here I wish I’d listened to dad more his knowledge of soils and his constant thirst for information is inspiring. This evening we have been discussing grass land management for next yr as we are likely to have a large carry over of silage.
seems like a fert up to spring flush then let the clover do its thing. Time will tell.

 

[In the pit]

A dose of urea and a couple of doses of p& k and jobs a good un

 

[lazy farmer]

No need for p and k on the platform here cows take care of that

 

[Sid]

Not sure where this standardised figure comes from with regard to production costs, as we’re all aware every farm is different, plenty making it work well below 30ppl right now or they simply wouldn’t be there. Funny how it’s the people trying to flog us feed we don’t need or shiny stuff to ride around on are often the ones claiming “we need 35ppl to be sustainable”

30p right now maybe ok, but winters coming bps is going and even tighter Farming rules for water mean 35ppl may not even be enough!

30ppl would have been tight last year with the drought?

 

[lazy farmer]

30p right now maybe ok, but winters coming bps is going and even tighter Farming rules for water mean 35ppl may not even be enough!

30ppl would have been tight last year with the drought?

It really wasn’t that bad got a fair bit done and debt paid despite the drought.

 

[Sid]

It really wasn’t that bad got a fair bit done and debt paid despite the drought.

Maybe not for you but know of spring calvers with no spring grass and little silage. Yields suffered as did incomes