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Will anybody sign the petition to bring back the Milk Boards
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7080534" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>I have heard of people who have been given notice by their buyers in this region. I dare say there are some in virtually any part of the UK, and indeed the same will be true of many other countries. Ultimately you have to produce the sort of milk they want and meet their requirements for doing so.</p><p></p><p>I would argue that because of this, milk is no longer a standardised product anyone can produce; the milk you will be paid for handsomely by buyer A may not be the same thing buyer B wants and these days a lot of buyers are being very specific about how they want milk produced. You can't do X or Y and all the grief or costs associated with that.</p><p></p><p>As I implied earlier, it is a terrible shame that some producers in other parts of the country are being shafted and have little option to sell elsewhere merely because of geography. I do not understand how the creation of the MMB will solve that, however. What the long term solution is I do not know but I do know that having a milk marketing board is going to cost someone somewhere money to operate and you will never get producers to agree to a universal milk price because they aren't all producing a universal product. I know people who have invested a great deal of time and energy to meet the requirements of their buyer and secure the contract they are on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7080534, member: 54866"] I have heard of people who have been given notice by their buyers in this region. I dare say there are some in virtually any part of the UK, and indeed the same will be true of many other countries. Ultimately you have to produce the sort of milk they want and meet their requirements for doing so. I would argue that because of this, milk is no longer a standardised product anyone can produce; the milk you will be paid for handsomely by buyer A may not be the same thing buyer B wants and these days a lot of buyers are being very specific about how they want milk produced. You can't do X or Y and all the grief or costs associated with that. As I implied earlier, it is a terrible shame that some producers in other parts of the country are being shafted and have little option to sell elsewhere merely because of geography. I do not understand how the creation of the MMB will solve that, however. What the long term solution is I do not know but I do know that having a milk marketing board is going to cost someone somewhere money to operate and you will never get producers to agree to a universal milk price because they aren't all producing a universal product. I know people who have invested a great deal of time and energy to meet the requirements of their buyer and secure the contract they are on. [/QUOTE]
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