Milk Price III

ShouShould we keep the own inside full time?

talking to milkman this morning and they have stopped sending milk down the country

So the buttermilk and whey is being dumped? Presume there is a charge to this?

Afaik tirlan are paying more than lakeland for a year now maybe. Was always told the coop look after each with processing facilities. If one place was broke etc. Were lakelands over supplied and couldn't handle milk or had they work to do on plants?

these farmer board members were put in there position by farmers to represent them and do there best for them …..they have an obligation to the coop too tho which supersedes what what they want to do for farmers …..the weak ones go too far in that direction and totally forget who they are first (farmer)and who elected them (farmer)

All well able to talk at elections and tell us what we want to hear ….takes a very strong board member to stand up and go against management …..

problem is in dairygold you have to buy 80 percent of your inputs from them to be a board member.

That is a deterrent to a business man who prices around for the best deal

you are nearly showing too much loyalty to the coop and not the guys who you are supposed to be representing on milk price.

ccoops should be competing for business instead of badgering people

spot on. so management gets management men on board. we have quite a few of those unfortunately.

no doubt you would expect that but sadly not the case. they are elected by committee members every 5 years and don't care after that

ya id imagine charge on disposal plus transport

lakelands plant closed as far as i know

I suppose the have legal fees this month from sending the 6 lads letters jokers.

The problem is the current GDT price would not support current Irish price.

I want milk price to go up but to be fair to all the coops it's not there in the markets.

I think most coops pay the maximum return to farmers on a given month. Coops can't hop between different products. Arrabawn paid a excellent price the last few years but casein into America is tougher going the last while so there price isn't as strong.

The problem I have with coops is longer term issues like tirlan competing with kerrygold in America and the nonsense bonuses added to milk price to confuse the issue.

All the sustainability payments are daft the markets don't return anything extra for all the sustainability measures we use on our farms. The vast majority of people who consume Irish dairy don't care about sustainability measures.

There is one pot of money to pay milk suppliers, coops should just tell suppliers the brutal truth of where markets are on a given month

Arrabawn /tipp up 0.5 cent to 49.89’…..it’s not a straight increase to base ….some form of bonus payment ….49.89 also includes 0.75 sustainability ,0.4 scc as well as that 0.5 bonus …..so in reality base is 48.24 inc vat ….see Lakeland increases by 0.5 with similar payment …..both jumped the gun too quick last month cutting by 1 cent

I was 53.3 cent in May 22 and 54.5 cent for this May, DG supplier. Add in calf price and good grass growth overall, this year will do nicely. Edit just to say that figure is the Net payment amount after all deductions.

Sure they have to pay the wages and the €250 loan they used to buy the milk business from Glanbia is costing them a 100 grand a week,without even mentioning that they’re going to need at least an extra 100 million to pay it off in 18 months time because the shares backing the loan have fallen so much