Milk Price III

Any milk supplier in the country can get spilt sampling done with IFA through a independent lab if they think they are being defrauded on milk test . The steps of how to go about it are on IFA website.

Its bananas to think the coops would engage in a multiple million euro fraud rather than simply cut the base price to balance the books. Cutting the milk price hasn't bothered them before

not as far fetched as you think ….Ive no doubt milk test results and parameters within tests can and are altered ….few weeks back load of suppliers in my coop were getting really low lactose tests ….4.3/4.4 …no way it was accurate …..good few calls to milk advisor and hey presto lactose jumped straight back to where they should be ….fluctuations in milk fats is also very common with unexplained swings in results ….i looked for a lab who do my milk recording to test a sample from my tank ….refused as request had to come thru coop 😉😉…requesting split sample through coop is waste of time

the kit used to test all samples can have a variance of 0.1, i looked into buying one a few years ago, so 3.4 protein could be 3.5 or 3.3….over a 10/15 year avg my butterfat/protein would be up or down by .1 each year but even out

my independent milk recording results are 0.4 lower for butterfat than coop milk test for past year, the agitating function doesn't seem to be working on my milk recording set up (drips into sample jar), independent testers explained how important even agitating a tank before collection can be

Arrabawn/tipp milk price held at 48.89’inc vat and sustainability …..sort of hard to hold after a few cuts last few months …..we’ve also gone down the road of quoting the average price paid to suppliers to try and jizz the whole thing up …..don’t know why coops quote that as that price is reflective of farmers affords on breeding and management …..with markets stable enough now hopefully prices hold for foreseeable

Kerry drop 1.5 cpl to 47.53

No explanation. I suppose they are short of money. Must pay Kerry Group.

Dairygold down 3 to 45 shower of cu××ts.

There will be war in Dairygold over that