Fonterra food scare

Mulumpy

Anyone any thoughts on this new contamination scare. Is it good or bad news for Irish dairy products?

delaval

Mulumpy wrote: »

Anyone any thoughts on this new contamination scare. Is it good or bad news for Irish dairy products?

NZ is an island and they will do all in their power to get it off and if the chinese won't buy they will sell to some one else

funny man

Milk Price to go through the roof!

Timmaay

funny man wrote: »

Milk Price to go through the roof!

Wasn't what happened in 2009 with the artifical protein booster, that made sh&te of the demand side totally. Thanks this appears nothing of the same magnitude.

mahoney_j

Story gathering pace,talking to brother who works for Gea who is based in Australia but dose a lot of work in New Zealand and they are getting pretty worried about it there now as it is the start of there season and milk was predicted to nAke big money this year.china Russia ,Thailand etc have now stopped taking product from New Zealand and are going to start sourcing it from Europe and America.good news for us in the immediate term as more prices could be imminent seeing as stocks are still so low worldwide.could we see a base price of 40 cent or greater by October?????heres hopping

maxxuumman

mahoney_j wrote: »

Story gathering pace,talking to brother who works for Gea who is based in Australia but dose a lot of work in New Zealand and they are getting pretty worried about it there now as it is the start of there season and milk was predicted to nAke big money this year.china Russia ,Thailand etc have now stopped taking product from New Zealand and are going to start sourcing it from Europe and America.good news for us in the immediate term as more prices could be imminent seeing as stocks are still so low worldwide.could we see a base price of 40 cent or greater by October?????heres hopping

If that happens, just wait for NewZealands rebuttle... " they have Johnes in Europe". Have always felt that the Johnes/Chrones card is something that the NewZealanders are going to play against Europe someday.

bob charles

an ill wind doesnt blow some good at the end of the day. What you mention about Johnes and Crohn's is a link that mainstream don't seem to have latched onto yet. All you want is one celebrity air head to change all that for the masses. Dont hold your breath for a increase in price

mahoney_j

bob charles wrote: »

an ill wind doesnt blow some good at the end of the day. What you mention about Johnes and Crohn's is a link that mainstream don't seem to have latched onto yet. All you want is one celebrity air head to change all that for the masses. Dont hold your breath for a increase in price

Dairy stocks worldwide are still low bob and if the Aussies and kiwis can't sell stock it is inevitable that prices will rise in Europe and America.agree on johnes/chrons link we need to be keeping very quite about that.that would be a huge catastraphoie if it happens

mf240

Will the new zealanders not just dump product onto another market at a reduced rate thus balancing out any effect.

bob charles

mahoney_j wrote: »

Dairy stocks worldwide are still low bob and if the Aussies and kiwis can't sell stock it is inevitable that prices will rise in Europe and America.agree on johnes/chrons link we need to be keeping very quite about that.that would be a huge catastraphoie if it happens

its easy see why the Chinese were taking such an interest in how we do things. UCD still building some sort of research farm there, or am I dreaming. Talk about selling your soul or should that be Seoul, better not bring the Koreans into this :rolleyes:

jaymla627

Seems that china has now banned all imports of whey protein and milk powder from Fonterra in new Zealand along with Russia surely milk price now has to go up this side of the world.

mahoney_j

jaymla627 wrote: »

Seems that china has now banned all imports of whey protein and milk powder from new Zealand along with Russia surely milk price now has to go up this side of the world.

Just had a read of a few articles on the New Zealand herald and its creating
Quite a stir over there,a few big executives facing the chop and government getting heavily involved.not really what kiwi farmers want to hear at the start of their year and especially one that was predicting a very strong milk price.cant/unable to post a link to New Zealand herald but if you google it you will find it

jaymla627

Could be a potential disaster for them, was looking it up china accounts for 21% of all new Zealand milk power exports that's a serious amount of milk powder.

TEAT SQUEEZER

china are just playing hard ball with this one... a little bit of political wrangling ,add to it a few visits to nz by some emminent food safety heads and a substantial price decrease and hey presto all fears will be alleviated........ simple as :rolleyes:

milkprofit

maxxuumman wrote: »

If that happens, just wait for NewZealands rebuttle... " they have Johnes in Europe". Have always felt that the Johnes/Chrones card is something that the NewZealanders are going to play against Europe someday.

Why U put this in print do u not care about future of Dairying

maxxuumman

milkprofit wrote: »

Why U put this in print do u not care about future of Dairying

Are you being serious. It's not exactly a secret.

mahoney_j

maxxuumman wrote: »

Are you being serious. It's not exactly a secret.

Not a seceret but certainly not common knowledge,Would agree that it is certainly something that needs o be kept under wraps.

bob charles

milkprofit wrote: »

Why U put this in print do u not care about future of Dairying

thats it, sweep it under the carpet any issues that are out there and then when you read them being discussed by some leftie looney in the guardian you will loose the plot. You must take people to be thick, your average get fit Joe and Sheila are doing serious research on their food nowadays

greysides

AHI have plans in train for a control programme so it's not being ignored. CoOps are concerned big time. It needs to be tackled, perhaps even more so than BVD but it will be harder.

In my own view, controlling it will make TB look easy but lets not get too fat off-topic.