Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk

[Graham w]

 

we only hear the bad news when they aren't doing so well as they would like to, how come i never see a old forty year old tractor in the fields, the vast majority here on Arbtalk who post their pictures of their forty year old tractors are in the make do and mend category,

 

just me then?

 

 

a few years ago we were running a 400 acre farm with a ford 7910 from 1986 and a massey 135 industrial. the ford died last year.

 

Kevin, farming is away of life, give it your all and take some pride. theres nothing in farming for the smaller tenanted farmer

 

we sized down to 200 acres as i dont get subsides so fund the farm with the forestry and sawmill

Edited August 7, 2015 by Graham w

[easy-lift guy]

Difference is that you don't eat trees people forget that if we don't produce our own food it would all have to be imported which would mean essentially that the importers could name their price, I don't agree with subsidies either andhave never claimed them, what I want is a fair price for my produce which is what the dairy farmers want too.

 

I believe the majority of the working people of the UK want to pay a fair price for goods and services. This is possible as long as the working folks out number the non or under working folks. When the takers out number the working makers economies and society start to go into a death spiral that generally is difficult if not impossible to recover from much less survive from.

Eliminate all subsidized living standards and other gimmicks and everyone will pay the actual cost for goods and services. Of course all wages would increase as well. Here's the catch, the takers would have no choice but to become makers. This I estimate would take at least 3 generations to set right, however

I believe that if the makers continue to out number the takers it is possible, if not all bets are off on either side of the pond!

easy-lift guy

[Taupotreeman]

Don't know much about what is happening in the UK, in fact don't know much about anything when it comes to farming of any kind but I will say that dairy farmers in NZ are in the same predicament. Milk solid pay outs are at $3.85 which is close on at an all time low. Farmers reckon if it drops below $3.75 it'll all be over for most dairy owners. One owner was talking about a $500,000 overdraft, just for the year, in order to keep afloat.

[mendiplogs]

just me then?

 

 

a few years ago we were running a 400 acre farm with a ford 7910 from 1986 and a massey 135 industrial. the ford died last year.

 

Kevin, farming is away of life, give it your all and take some pride. theres nothing in farming for the smaller tenanted farmer

 

we sized down to 200 acres as i dont get subsides so fund the farm with the forestry and sawmill

 

Hi graham thanks for your post mate 👍Jon 👍

[mendiplogs]

just me then?

 

 

a few years ago we were running a 400 acre farm with a ford 7910 from 1986 and a massey 135 industrial. the ford died last year.

 

Kevin, farming is away of life, give it your all and take some pride. theres nothing in farming for the smaller tenanted farmer

 

we sized down to 200 acres as i dont get subsides so fund the farm with the forestry and sawmill

 

Hi all milk farmers hold talks with Morrison's I wonder if Morrison's will listen and other supermarkets thanks or will they just go importing more milking into the UK thanks Jon

[Lucan]

There you go

 

Morrisons to create new milk brand for farmers

 

Will be interesting to see when it comes to market whether the British public will pay the extra 25% or not

[matelot]

Interesting link.

 

One quote that caught my eye was:

 

"Sean Rickard told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today that dairy farmers were paid an average of £28,000 a year from the taxpayer."

[mendiplogs]

There you go

 

Morrisons to create new milk brand for farmers

 

Will be interesting to see when it comes to market whether the British public will pay the extra 25% or not

 

Hi LUCAN ALL SO IF THE FARMERS that's contracted to Morrison's get a fairer deal we shall see you can buy Yeo Valley milk now and that milk comes all there own farms that's what we buy why by imported milk thanks Jon

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Interesting link.

 

One quote that caught my eye was:

 

"Sean Rickard told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today that dairy farmers were paid an average of £28,000 a year from the taxpayer."

 

 

That's exactly what grips me. Never mind "Benefit Street" if Joe Public knew how much grant funding went into agriculture there'd be an uproar. Furthermore, if they knew how much was pointlessly wasted there'd be even more!

 

Heard a quote from a Cornish dairy farmer bemoaning that PROFIT was down 96k this year.... That's PROFIT down 96k! There must have been some bloody fat years before then.

[mendiplogs]

That's exactly what grips me. Never mind "Benefit Street" if Joe Public knew how much grant funding went into agriculture there'd be an uproar. Furthermore, if they knew how much was pointlessly wasted there'd be even more!

 

Heard a quote from a Cornish dairy farmer bemoaning that PROFIT was down 96k this year.... That's PROFIT down 96k! There must have been some bloody fat years before then.

 

Hi john it not going to small farmers of say 200)600 Arces it going the very large ones that are land banking land of say 1000 Arces and there's lots around with 5000)10000 around and loads more then that thanks jon