Milk Price- Please read Mod note in post #1

Farmer Ed

I can't understand the politics of this? We have to boycott the Russians but we are falling over ourselves to do business with these guys? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-kills-millions-of-innocent-meditators-for-their-organs-report-finds-a7107091.html

Timmaay

Farmer Ed wrote: »

I can't understand the politics of this? We have to boycott the Russians but we are falling over ourselves to do business with these guys? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-kills-millions-of-innocent-meditators-for-their-organs-report-finds-a7107091.html

The ironic thing is that probably is as far as most Irish people's opinion of the Chinese goes ha.

Farmer Ed

Timmaay wrote: »

The ironic thing is that probably is as far as most Irish people's opinion of the Chinese goes ha.

I'm sure they are a great bunch of lads and so are the Russians. Just why do we have to boycott the Russians and not the Chineese? I'm not trying to be smart but seeing as it is apparently effecting the price we get paid for milk? Why are the Russians considered worse than the Chinese?

Timmaay

Farmer Ed wrote: »

I'm sure they are a great bunch of lads and so are the Russians. Just why do we have to boycott the Russians and not the Chineese? I'm not trying to be smart but seeing as it is apparently effecting the price we get paid for milk? Why are the Russians considered worse than the Chinese?

It's the Russians who have boycotted us. And they are on the road down to self sustainably for food now. But agreed fully, stories like you quoted are scary altogether, however when there is a trade deal and mega bucks on the table all morals seem to go out the window.

Farmer Ed

Timmaay wrote: »

It's the Russians who have boycotted us. And they are on the road down to self sustainably for food now. But agreed fully, stories like you quoted are scary altogether, however when there is a trade deal and mega bucks on the table all morals seem to go out the window.

I thought the Eu stopped buying something from them first then they stopped buying dairy produce from us and we got punished for something that had nothing to do with us? From what is reported you are correct and we have shot ourselves in the foot as they are reportedly becoming self sefichant.

Farmer Ed

http://althealthworks.com/4730/does-kerrygold-grass-fed-irish-butter-contain-gmos-and-should-you-put-it-in-your-coffee/

Interesting how the use of Gm feed is being questioned. Do we have an alternative? And at what cost? Certainly kerrygold looks like a brand worth protecting

mf240

rangler1 wrote: »

There's an ad in the IFJ looking for a farm manager, 350 cows increasing to 500 in 3 years......... lucky that there isn't a surplus of milk
You couldn't make it up

You looking for a job ?

trixi2011

looks like milk price is on the way up over in the uk spot price running at over 25p a litre and cream skyrocketing, some of the coops already play some dirty tactics such as droping b litre which have been linked to the price of the spot market.

freedominacup

trixi2011 wrote: »

looks like milk price is on the way up over in the uk spot price running at over 25p a litre and cream skyrocketing, some of the coops already play some dirty tactics such as droping b litre which have been linked to the price of the spot market.

How much of that lift is currency related?

Waffletraktor

freedominacup wrote: »

How much of that lift is currency related?

Crops jumped up 5-10£ ton across the board.

trixi2011

Im sure some of it is due to the drop in the pound but also production is well down on the last few years. Something like 1million litres a day down and falling. Imprts of milk and produce from ireland are more expencive with the currency were it is leading to supermarkets buying more british products

kevthegaff

Gone fierce quiet here lately..

whelan2

kevthegaff wrote: »

Gone fierce quiet here lately..

There is normally a lull for a few days between getting milk cheque and price being announced for the next month

mahoney_j

kevthegaff wrote: »

Gone fierce quiet here lately..

Farming&forestery on boards in general has gone very quite .with so many after signing off from here u could come back every few days and not of missed much

kevthegaff

Is dawg still here?

blackdog1

mahoney_j wrote:

Farming&forestery on boards in general has gone very quite .with so many after signing off from here u could come back every few days and not of missed much

Too much moaning on here now. Before when you looked at the milk price thread it had your milk price and coop base price. Now it's all these long posts with people just waffling. Quite annoying.

RightTurnClyde

kevthegaff wrote: »

Gone fierce quiet here lately..

Everyone's off on holidays :):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Dawggone

kevthegaff wrote: »

Is dawg still here?

Just gone to get my head examined...back soon.

rangler1

mf240 wrote: »

You looking for a job ?

Very funny, but the joke's milk production at the moment.
Producing milk powder to fill stores, lets plan expansion.
And belittle the govt for not facilitating it.
Doesn't make a lot of sense does it,

whelan2

blackdog1 wrote: »

Too much moaning on here now. Before when you looked at the milk price thread it had your milk price and coop base price. Now it's all these long posts with people just waffling. Quite annoying.

I dont read essay's . Most stuff can normally be posted in short to the point posts

Miname

Dawggone wrote: »

Just gone to get my head examined...back soon.

It'll take them a while to examine that.

blackdog1

whelan2 wrote:

I dont read essay's . Most stuff can normally be posted in short to the point posts

I agree. I just want to know what other guys are producing, their solids, and if they're exceptional how they're doing it so I can learn. Dawg's post on feed are always illuminating. I no longer use distillers on grass anymore.

orm0nd

blackdog1 wrote: »

I agree. I just want to know what other guys are producing, their solids, and if they're exceptional how they're doing it so I can learn. Dawg's post on feed are always illuminating. I no longer use distillers on grass anymore.

I was 1 of the few that used to post price, solids, yields etc in hope that we could have a comparsion between co ops & how different sytems were working, but I couldn't be bothered my arse anymore

whelan2

In fairness when this thread was opened milk price was very good. Alot has changed since then, including the intoduction of msa's. Alot of people-including me- use this thread to vent. Apologies

Dawggone

Miname wrote: »

It'll take them a while to examine that.

Yep...nanoscience!

Farmer Ed

In fairness if we are allowed moan about milk price then I think anybody who promoted harvest 2020 can't complain about getting a mention. Like it or not wasting farmers money on overpriced and under used processing capacity is ultimately having an effect on milk price.

Waffletraktor

Farmer Ed wrote: »

In fairness if we are allowed moan about milk price then I think anybody who promoted harvest 2020 can't complain about getting a mention. Like it or not wasting farmers money on overpriced and under used processing capacity is ultimately having an effect on milk price.

I guess the drop in demand coinciding with massive levels of over production had nothing to do with it? :rolleyes:

kevthegaff

Lot of guys got agitated here in last few months, not sure was it roaming posters or price pressure which I can't understand. Processors, gov, farm lobby groups and ourselves as sheep to a lessor extent imo are all culpable in what has happened. But it's interesting to question these subjects. Base price is affected by all these internal and external factors, hence "milk price thread". The more posters on here adds to the debate.

kowtow

whelan2 wrote: »

I dont read essay's . Most stuff can normally be posted in short to the point posts

+1000

I don't even read my own posts when they go past a paragraph.

mahoney_j

kowtow wrote: »

+1000

I don't even read my own posts when they go past a paragraph.

Jaysus ,u obviously don't read back through much of ur posts so !!!!!
A lot of your posts I'd have to read a couple of times to truly understand what's going .in fairness always interesting and make sense