Milk volume how little is to little

[wooly619]

With the muller serving notice to some of it farmers for various things. One of the point is down to milk volume. So how much milk is required to continue supplying muller ?

 

[DairyNerd]

Our processor pick up a farm that does around 900 litres a collection but he does milk jerseys on a solids contract. Personally I think that is not a good enough reason to drop a producer unless they have decreased volumes significantly below what they agreed to supply.

 

[sidjon]

2 on our pickup are less than 300 litres on eod, did have on guy sending around 100 litres until not that long ago.

 

[Nearly]

If you need to ask......

 

[Beef farmer]

It's gonna cost 30 quid to pull in and out of a yard and put a pipe on. If your off the main run, it's just going to keep getting more expensive.
500l 3 mile from a main tanker run, with poor access, you can see both sides of the argument I'm afraid

 

[Jdunn55]

2 on our pickup are less than 300 litres on eod, did have on guy sending around 100 litres until not that long ago.

What's that 5-6 cows each?

You need to be sending 1000l minimum every other day surely to make it worthwhile

 

[sidjon]

What's that 5-6 cows each?

You need to be sending 1000l minimum every other day surely to make it worthwhile

One has 8 cows think the other may have 10, their both very elderly, they pass red tractor and have good milk quality ,farms would be brought and paid for ,so milk cheque is better than the pension

 

[Will Blackburn]

Müller only do EDC AFAIK.

 

[LTH]

Do they use 8 wheelers or just Arctic’s ?

 

[cattow]

Do they use 8 wheelers or just Arctic’s ?

8 wheelers around here, SJ Bargh

 

[LTH]

That’s what picks ours up for Woodcocks.

 

[cattow]

That’s what picks ours up for Woodcocks.

They pick up all non farmer owned coop milk around here

 

[Enry]

I wonder if this could be the sting in the tail of the new dairy contract legislation - everyone apparently will be issued a new contract....what if they decide they don't want "everyone" That would be a shot across the bows for NFU etc who have fought for it

 

[LTH]

Who knows what they’ll do, Just waiting to see what happens. There’s a couple of us in the same area.

 

[Cowwilf]

Our tanker collects 400 litres eod from a farm before coming to us.

Just looked at the price schedule, Meadow are -2ppl if your below 750 a day but that's actually minus 2.5ppl from standard litre price as standard litre volume is paid as .5p bonus also minus 1p if not on eodc.

 

[lady muck]

Muller previously got rid of everyone under 1000 litres per day so not sure if that has increased. From memory during that time when our cow numbers reduced to that level we had a negative volume bonus.

 

[LTH]

Surely they’ll want milk to pay for the investment

 

[bigw]

Surely they’ll want milk to pay for the investment

Or try to limit supply to drive prices particularly for liquid. They will have effectively stopped new entrants in a lot of areas now.

 

[Whitewalker]

Just a good indicator of how inflation continues to devalue our produce to the point that it doesn't rise in line with inflation but just gets dispatched as unviable. Hasn't changed in decades.

 

[Enry]

Surely they’ll want milk to pay for the investment

The 2000 cow club will soon fill any gaps - Grosvenor must be doing 3 artic loads a day and they are by no means the biggest