Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

why do you think that is, ginger. Are the eu abandoning farming as a way of reducing emission/nitrates to save big corporations and over population in many cities or they don't see a future in farming. While in Indonesia, they are after clearing 45000 hectare of forest for rice fields. what's going on just makes no sense to me.

Protectionism is good but if the EU was to be subsidising uncompetitive exports, that's communism territory. There's no great strategic reason to have excess milk production capabilities.

I thought it was interesting looking at things from a different system. Dont have to take it too seriously but the northern attitude to work suits america and the opportunities that are there.

On people taking out robots, the lely man mentioned 5% across Europe that come out within a couple of years i think. Something like that anyway. I know a few lads who took them out, some were 2 legged problems. And another couple of cases where a chance for rapid expansion appeared and large parlours with in. One of the places isn't overly rosey since, other place is going well afaik.

Behave yourself

Not sure about the south but I think dale farm bring some into the north. Might not be worth the hassle for a lot of coops who aren't already segregating milk for m the north.

What UK dairy farmers have to put up with from their processors is unbelievable. Pretty much flat supply curve and still asked to dump milk. Their is very few driers in the UK so can't put much of the milk into long life products.

When you see that going on in the UK it would remind me how important it is, that Irish dairy farmers mind their farmer owned coops. The coops have their issues but that kind of mess just won't happen in Ireland

Problem i see with co ops there getting less every year if one gets into difficulty its neighbour bails it out how long will this go on for till only one remains who will bail it out simple a foreign investment fund only after profit then the fun will start may take 20 or 30yrs but thats the way its going .

So what happens when were left with one co op a bit of bad management what then lad whos the last remaining co op going to merge with.Look what happened in nz.

tipp would of folded if merger didn’t happen ….lots of interested parties …can only speak of my own coop ,I was there for Midwest /nenagh merger to form Arrabawn ….and now for Arrabawn /tipp merger …..long term both were and will be big success …milk pool is too small for amount of coops currently here ….lots of savings to be made by coops joining up which should leave suppliers in better position ….structures and boards within coops are an issue tho …most too big and rules and trading requirements and lots political shite are keeping very good people away

Im a shareholder of an co op which has long since stopped processing milk they have a few agri stores the amount of messi ng and money wasted all legal an above board is crazy the election of new board members is something youd see in russia.