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Should the uplift not be going to the aligned guys if there making all the extra cash from supermarket sales :barefoot:
Oooooh that’s complicated, yes and no depending where the extra milk being put into the supermarkets is coming from and of course wether those supermarkets have an aligned pool of milk large enough to draw the extra milk from. No doubt there are shops who don’t have aligned contracts who have extra demand too.
There’s also the fact that you can’t have your cake and eat it, aligned contracts are paying at or above the fully costed cost of production at all times whereas the rest of us have to follow the market and supply and demand, the newly announced Muller price is still some way off those fully costed contracts so nothing to get too excited about.
 

PDB

Member
Livestock Farmer
Muller, one trick pony? That'll be Muller who make yogurts. And butter and milk shakes and just about every dairy product except cheese? And are the biggest doorstep retailers.

Good job you know your market.
The vast majority of muller uk milk goes into the liquid market via supermarkets, hence why they are benefiting.
 
Being a Muller non-aligned supplier i am grateful for the 1ppl increase.

However, i am not going to get too excited as having come through this winter on 25p we have made no money, and it will take a return to a plus 28ppl milk price for a stable time before we feel confident again.

Unfortunatly in the UK at the moment we just have too much milk, and with half the country having been on 30p for the last 12 months and those farms busy expanding, the next time the next milk price crash happens it will be more savage than last time for us non-aligned producers.

Very worrying times in the future indeed.
 

dinderleat

Member
Location
Wells
Being a Muller non-aligned supplier i am grateful for the 1ppl increase.

However, i am not going to get too excited as having come through this winter on 25p we have made no money, and it will take a return to a plus 28ppl milk price for a stable time before we feel confident again.

Unfortunatly in the UK at the moment we just have too much milk, and with half the country having been on 30p for the last 12 months and those farms busy expanding, the next time the next milk price crash happens it will be more savage than last time for us non-aligned producers.

Very worrying times in the future indeed.
I Disagree with there being to much milk In the UK. What we need to do is exsport more value added products out of the uk. But the uk dairy industry has been obsessed with producing milk for bottling
 
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Being paid 6ppl for you milk in April. You can ride that? My labour bill is 4.8ppl all in.
Well it would be easier than trying to do it in November, at least you can tip them out and just go for survival, where as in November if you cut everything out you'd just end up with no milk, and no milk for a long time until they calved back in again. If I was getting 6ppl there would be no labour bill, as I'd milk them myself the staff would have to go, they'd be a luxury I'd have to do without. I said RIDE it, by that I meant a couple of months, and yes at the end of it you'd have no staff, but you'd still be there, it either that or pack up. As it happens all our milkers were Irish, they all packed up and went home a couple of weeks ago as they had lock down, so I'm on my own.
 

Scholsey

Member
Location
Herefordshire
To be fair it sounds like it’s either pay farmers 6ppl and still get previous months milk cheque and Paid for every litre or they go bankrupt and suppliers miss out on thousands of litres of milk cheque all together. Guess as long as none of their family has died of covid 19 it could have been worse.
 
Didn’t muller also buy milk and more? that’s a growth industry while self isolations on, not even taking on new customers atm due to too high demand. although probably small volumes in the grand scheme of things?
 

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