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What % premium?
Best part of 50% over the 2 dry months.
What % premium?
Welcome to the world of being a board/membership member for farmers. I've take two weeks off, unpaid, to travel abroad. Great experience but someone had to cover me and thats not cheap but the same as you I don't do it for the money!I think if you want to cut the expenses any lower you would exclude some farmers from being able to stand , as a one man band I had to pay relief labour to come in and cover me for two days , I also delayed my 1st cut by four days , had I decided to let the contractor do the whole job in my absence so as not to affect the farm it would have cost me over £1k extra on the bill while my machinery still carried on depreciating parked up . It was only a one of for me though anyway !
The day rates for elected reps are on the website for all to see .
Poor selling from the dairys, giving supermarkets the profit not the farmers.
What Arla needs is 10 block spring calving farmers to look at the business and cut out all the crap. All these essentials that Arla think they need but don't. That is a start too many hands in the pot[/QUOTE]
Spot on! It is exactly that..
At times you perhaps could have identified issues like that, but the head count has been slashed over the last few years and certainly the farming team we work with work some long hours. We often get emails sent very late at night or on the week end. There are strict limits on overnight stay bills and meal bills when staff are travelling as well. In the time I have been involved there has rightly been a significant tightening of spend across the business. This process continues and Poul Krogsgaard, the Vice CEO concentrates on cost control across Arla, each year more and more cost has been removed.
I think it is more around very strong resistance to price increases from the supermarkets, which cannot continue when markets are strengthening. That is along with the currency smoothing issue which still owes us another 2ppl currently. There are also known issues in Germany, where as a result, Arla has walked away from significant business, placing the milk onto the world market in various products instead, which looking like it could be a very well played bet given the way markets have moved in the last 2 weeks.
Do you not think there is too much positive spin put on things by corporate PR. Hardly a week goes by when I don't get some "how everything is perfect" newsletter from the PR department. Whilst nobody likes to wash their dirty linen in public it would be much more reassuring to read some "bad news" story, together with details of what has been done to remedy it. It isn't just Arla who make this mistake, other businesses do the same thing. The trouble is the people running those businesses have a tendency to start to believe their own propaganda, That is when they become (protected in their high paid corporate cocoon) deluded to the reality of what is really happening.
What's the cut?First milk down again for June on A litres increase on B litres tho!! That's after a paragraph about a rising market. WTF
It's beyond galling.First milk down again for June on A litres increase on B litres tho!! That's after a paragraph about a rising market. WTF
What's standard litre price0.35 for us
Arla to blame?
Most likely DC more cuts for July will you get that as well?25.49 allegedly - Scottish mainland.
So the expected fall in the spot market is enough to tumble prices going into the spring , and when the spot market does nothing of the sort , our price falls because the rest of the industry decided to exploit their suppliers.
0.35 for us
Arla to blame?
Do you not think there is too much positive spin put on things by corporate PR. Hardly a week goes by when I don't get some "how everything is perfect" newsletter from the PR department. Whilst nobody likes to wash their dirty linen in public it would be much more reassuring to read some "bad news" story, together with details of what has been done to remedy it. It isn't just Arla who make this mistake, other businesses do the same thing. The trouble is the people running those businesses have a tendency to start to believe their own propaganda, That is when they become (protected in their high paid corporate cocoon) deluded to the reality of what is really happening.
The FM price comes from a basket of competitors prices. Do you think they will put in the mirage Arla price ( pre currency adjustments) or the actual Arla price paid?Given that arla is returning enough from the UK market to return a top of the table milk price pre the currency smoother , how do you work out Arla is to blame for other processors price cuts ? If our price was where it is pre the currency smoother you may have a point , as it isn't it just highlights other milk purchasers ability to exploit it's suppliers or their weak selling power , either way you needing to be looking closer to home, not blaming others .
If you ride on others shoulders don't complain if the ride is bumpy , if you don't like it get off and walk yourself
The FM price comes from a basket of competitors prices. Do you think they will put in the mirage Arla price ( pre currency adjustments) or the actual Arla price paid?