Farmers are forced to pour a MILLION litres of milk away
Demand from factories, cafes and restaurants has fallen off a cliff as lockdown enters its 39th day. More than half of farmers have cut their prices. Sector is appealing for government aid.
why cant we stand together???
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DeeGee
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- North East Wales
Farmers will never stand together in this country, because there will always be the selfish/greedy/clever individuals that will break ranks when offered a bribe of a better price by buyers targeting a few producers in order to break the union and to divide and rule.
Always has happened and always will in this country, always a few people ready to break ranks for a few bob.
Always has happened and always will in this country, always a few people ready to break ranks for a few bob.
3 generations ago, farmers would all muck in and help neighbours with harvest etc. Now it's dog eat dog, gobble up any land going, must get bigger at all cost, haggle over every last blade of grass and straw.....
Where did it all go wrong.....
We used to pour milk away when we went over quoter years ago. Why is a dairy farmer coining it in, on a 30+ppl contract going to stand together with one on his arse ,on a worse contract? Beef farmer on a 10ppkg above base contract finishing 2000 p/year isnt going to stand will somebody finishing 50 getting robbed is he.
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Downward pressure from Supermarkets.
beardface
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- East Yorkshire
Divide and conquer. Ultimately supermarkets, through large processors have slowly devoured the food retail market at producer expense. This has been backed up by successive governments who have reaped the benefits of low food prices and an overfed population.
Absolutely on the button .
My Grandad always said “ The only time you will get two farmers working together is if they are screwing a third” .
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- Lincolnshire
Aye, when the MMB came into effect my grandfather took a slight drop in price but he didn’t mind as it gave those up country a decent reward for their efforts . He had hitherto marketed his milk through the Kirk elders as his farm was on the edge of town.
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
Shocking waste of a hard earned product..not a dairy farmer myself but can't understand why this is allowed to happen in this day and age,surely its time to say enough is enough?Farmers are forced to pour a MILLION litres of milk away
Demand from factories, cafes and restaurants has fallen off a cliff as lockdown enters its 39th day. More than half of farmers have cut their prices. Sector is appealing for government aid.www.dailymail.co.uk
Because you are individual businesses competing against one another.
How is working together going to stop something like the milk dumping in your article when demand suddenly changes?
I'll get shouted at for this but when it comes to dairy I think the easy bit is getting it in the tank. I'm always amazed how it gets collected, processed, transported and sold every day with hardly anyone noticing.
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- N.Lincs
Very true...............
..............and, unfortunately, in the current crisis, supermarkets are seen by the government as 'the saviours of the country' by the way that they are stoically ensuring that the masses get fed, so I don't expect anything to change in that respect anytime soon
The bu66ers have all got adverts on the telly telling us what a great job they're doing looking after their customers.
Looking after themselves, more like. They're all lining their pockets on the back of this sodding virus.
Very true...............
..............and, unfortunately, in the current crisis, supermarkets are seen by the government as 'the saviours of the country' by the way that they are stoically ensuring that the masses get fed, so I don't expect anything to change in that respect anytime soon
The bu66ers have all got adverts on the telly telling us what a great job they're doing looking after their customers.
Looking after themselves, more like. They're all lining their pockets on the back of this sodding virus.
Then do something about it.
(not you, personally
. UK agriculture).
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- N.Lincs
Yeah, but sadly, it comes down to the point made in posts above - the fragmented state of our industry, competing against, rather than working with, each otherThen do something about it.
(not you, personally
Yeah, but sadly, it comes down to the point made in posts above - the fragmented state of our industry, competing against, rather than working with, each other
nah, it's a doddle:
1) An industry recognition that there needs to be a correction in the marketplace, specifically a reversal in the concentration of market share.
2) A recognition by UK agriculture that its allies in achieving this correction are to be found in the environmental and social justice movements.
Get the above two ticked off by dinnertime, then you've got all afternoon to implement the necessary measures.
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/tescorona.313517/
then down the pub by 6
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lack of deodorant
I think you know the answer.......................globalisation
- Location
- Ceredigion
Thought we had to stand 2m apart
Nah, 1st January 1973.....?
Tut, tut, it's 79 inches. ?
It was subsidies, once farmers started get them, they became disconnected from the marketplace, and so lossed control of how they sell their wares
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