Water John wrote: » I see Strathroy open to new suppliers on Farming Indo. Might be time for a few to put processors on notice.
Farmer Ed wrote: » Creed to the rescue he's going on a junket to China in the autumn. Problem solved. I remember having a long discussion with him years ago when I was having difficulty with quotas and he telling me how good they were. Well fair play he doesn't seem to be a man afraid to change his mind. The good news is one of the UK processors has announced a milk price increase. Fingers crossed. We shouldn’t look backwards at a quota regime – Minister Creed @agrilandIreland http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/we-shouldnt-look-backwards-at-a-quota-regime-minister-creed/
jaymla627 wrote: » His latest brainwave is a cashflow budget manual for all us mathematically challanged dairy farmers, seems it's not the co-ops fault we are in the red, simply not managing our cash - flow correctly haha
Farmer Ed wrote: » Pretty condescending to say the least.
jaymla627 wrote: » Theirs a seriously skewed line been towed by this excuse for a minister, first of all lauding the lowest paying co-op in the country and been a extra in a promo video for a scheme that's seriously iffy to say the least and then instead of coming out with something constructive from this dairy forum he decides to lecture lads about cash - flow..... Still was harping on about 2020 and how all this extra milk and how it will benefit the wider economy but the lad pulling tits seems to be a after thought, seen bord bia predict that only around 35,000 cows will be culled extra this year from the dairy herd I reckon 100,000 will be a closer figure can see lads taking a knife to their herds in the back - end simply trying to get cash in as milk cheques get smaller and smaller might be the wake - up call the suits need to start paying for milk
Farmer Ed wrote: » Does anyone know who makes up the so called experts on the dairy forum?
whelan2 wrote: » Are you on it?
visatorro wrote: » Agree with you. But don't believe the big cull will happen. There will be more cows culled because there's more cows being Milked. More heifers will calf down next spring than ever before. Paddy won't reduce numbers. Pride and one cent margins will make it worthwhile.
jaymla627 wrote: » Pride won't pay the bills, coming into the spring next year their is going to be savage pressure put on cash flow, if guys have their limits reached/maxed out, how are they going to carry more numbers into the spring and fund meal/fert for these ladies...... I'd say all merchants/co-ops will be very tetchy about extending credit limits, if nice bills have been run-up on the back of this year and farmers are slow about clearing them/getting them under control they might stop credit in some cases
whelan2 wrote: » The main thing to do is to write down each month what you owe and what you can pay. Let the people you owe money to know what the story is that you will pay eventually , even giving them a small bit every month is better than nothing. This crack of avoiding salesmen does you no good in the end. If you dont want to talk to them let them know by text/email.
OverRide wrote: » Agree with whelan2 on what to do Our favourite 'co op /plc' by the way is already seizing entire milk cheques even in cases where they are talking to the customer's Thats not helping matters
Farmer Ed wrote: » That was happening as far back as last July with another big co op. I must say credit where credit is due. I did a bit of trading with Arrabawn and was pleasantly surprised that they had the courtesy the give me a call to ask was it OK to take money from the May cheque. A bit of understanding goes a long way.
OverRide wrote: Our favourite 'co op /plc' by the way is already seizing entire milk cheques even in cases where they are talking to the customer's Thats not helping matters
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Farmer Ed wrote: » Blue I fail to see how I have offended you? I'm sure I'm entitled to share my experiences on here just the same as everyone else. Milk price is crap at the moment. I'm sorry but that is not of my doing. I have no idea what amount of private messaging has been going on here trying to band people with views that one might not agree with as some kind of conspiracy theorists. I can assure you if I was to post anything on here that was untrue. It would be removed pretty quickly. My intension is certainly not to offend you or anyone else. But I do think I have a right to freedom of opinion. Normally your posts are well balanced. Not sure what promoted you to making that outburst.
OverRide wrote: » Eh ??? Hes referring to the co op not you He used say feck off when they took a milk cheque,now he says thats nice (sarcasticly) like mrs brown would I really think,when things are misunderstood that badly its time to take a break from reading here
blackdog1 wrote: » In 2009 1 month I got no milk cheque luckily I had plenty of culls to sell at a good price. Ppl won't even have that this year. Eradication of quotas effected not only milk price but cow beef price.
blue5000 wrote: » As OverRide says it was aimed at the co-op Ed, not you, no offence taken, apology accepted. Just to clarify where I was coming from: I used to be a supplier, a lot of my neighbours still are, some aren't anymore. In the past they were not as 'nice' about taking money from cheques for feed and fertiliser, it looks like they may have changed tactics. I don't buy anything from them anymore as one of the first things they did when I stopped supplying milk was to close my trading account. I'd even think twice before picking up a lb of their butter in the supermarket. In my opinion the bigger you were the more co-operation you got, ie. credit terms, interest charged etc.
blue5000 wrote: » Not milking anymore, main issue was milking platform was too small to expand.
Farmer Ed wrote: » http://theglobaldairy.com/noticias/arla-holds-july-milk-price-as-dairy-market-stabilises-47480/ When converted to euro that's 24.84 c l at today's exchange rate.
