Milk Price III

Its likely to be exactly the same, just diff wrapping.

NB, don't eat the wrapping.

boggerman1 wrote: »

Was talking to a guy today on the board of my co-op,and the prospect for the milk price for the 2nd half of 17 is far from certain.more than likely hold till may or hold to get glanbia vote tru,after that....

that was on the cards from last nov. but it was hoped that price would hold until after peak months, i.e. july onwards

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Milk reduction money to come this week.

http://m.independent.ie/business/farming/dairy/cashflow-boost-for-dairy-farmers-35569570.html?utm_content=bufferedf2e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

So 1000 farmers applied and didn't end up reducing, the majority of whom more than likely did so deliberately. Looks like more than 3 million will go unclaimed. No mention on a redistribution of this money as some on here claimed would happen. Maybe their well connected sources are not as dependable as they would've had us believe.

Farmer Ed wrote: »

I'm probably hanging around too many hippies. But honestly I think we have all been sold some alternative facts from people who's sole aim is to make money. https://draxe.com/raw-milk-benefits/

I think the statistical bias in that article is pretty bad as well ... it's not surprising that such a tiny proportion of illness comes from raw milk when raw milk is more or less illegal in most Western countries!

But you are absolutely right - unsurprisingly the people most in favour of compulsory pasteurisation are those who own the biggest pasteurisers, - the milk processing factories. Sadly for dairy farmers they are also the only buyer for milk and they frequently have a monopoly position over any given farm, one which is made stronger if they can make themselves the only legal route to market.

And pasteurisation itself was a response - in large part - not to the inherent dangers of milk but to the dangers of the early, dirty, factory farms - when city populations exploded during the industrial revolution herds had to get larger and move, more or less, into the cities themselves where they were milked in foul conditions and disease of all sorts was rife.

There is no question in my mind that pasture raised raw milk from cows you know to be healthy is and always was the best of all milks, and has health benefits which the pasteurised (and certainly the homogenised) product simply does not. It also tastes (as does the cheese, cream and butter) totally different to the industrial equivalent.

The tiny raw milk industry gets a very hard deal from the regulators (just look at the current battle with Errington cheese in Scotland) while the same regulators encourage large factory operations to regulate themselves and write the rule book everyone must adhere to.

Raw milk and raw milk products are connected to a tiny pin prick of food poisoning cases compared with the factory processed chicken which moves through our "food system" in various forms every day - but cheap chicken and the grains which make it are a staple of the glorious agrifood industry and makes serious money, whereas raw milk is the domain of happy cows and hippies who should know better than to choose a product just because it tastes much better and is good for them.