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Did they give you figures for other processors?

Why would that matter though?

A milk buyer has stipulated, for whatever reason, that they want all their producers to fulfil some additional criteria. I can only speculate why this might be, but I suspect it might be something to do with their eventual customer and marketing reasons. From memory there has been talk of additional Johnes disease controls but don't quote me.

As such, since the farmer is in fact listening to his customer and responding to customer demands, he has two choices in this matter: comply with what the customer wants, or sell his milk elsewhere for an easier life, and there are no shortage of milk buyers in this region I can tell you that.

Competition, in a free market environment. It is a thing.
 
Why would that matter though?

A milk buyer has stipulated, for whatever reason, that they want all their producers to fulfil some additional criteria. I can only speculate why this might be, but I suspect it might be something to do with their eventual customer and marketing reasons. From memory there has been talk of additional Johnes disease controls but don't quote me.

As such, since the farmer is in fact listening to his customer and responding to customer demands, he has two choices in this matter: comply with what the customer wants, or sell his milk elsewhere for an easier life, and there are no shortage of milk buyers in this region I can tell you that.

Competition, in a free market environment. It is a thing.
Did you mean to reply to me? (n) I was just following on from @watcher72 's post regarding sharing of AB failure data.
 
I have just re read the info I received from
Barbers. It states we used to have a failure every 350 tests which is
Broadly similar to the national average where as now it’s every 2500 tests so a huge improvement.
So now I’m confused.
Sorry
 
I have just re read the info I received from
Barbers. It states we used to have a failure every 350 tests which is
Broadly similar to the national average where as now it’s every 2500 tests so a huge improvement.
So now I’m confused.
Sorry
Well I suppose if there's 7 separate farms milk on a tanker. That's 1300 collections a day, so 3 failures a day is 1 failure in 433 so in the region roughly.

Edit: Forgot about payment tests there's probably about 1200 of them a day too. So more like a failure every 800 tests. Perhaps your buyer couldn't work it out exact either, which is why they said broadly similar!
 
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watcher72

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From what it seems is no one has any idea of how many samples fail at tanker or silo and how many fail on farm due to human error.

Not a good starting place to gauge from.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 79 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.2%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.3%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 6 3.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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