eireannBEAR wrote: » Answer me!!!! :mad:
whitebriar wrote: » http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/agribusiness-and-food/how-the-big-co-ops-plan-to-keep-milking-high-prices-1.1528552 QUOTE] eireannBEAR wrote: » 1.29c per 2 liters of bainne ur. do the cheaper milks such as strathroy pay less to the farmers than avonmore? Eireannbear the article above is a poorly researched article with the author having little or no understanding of supermarket power. I am not a dairy farmer by the way. I do not know what Strathroy pay however over the last ten years or more the UK has failed to fill its EU quota so UK farmers must not be rolling in money. In Ireland Kerrygroup has exited the liquid milk market as it is not making enough of a return. The UK market returned less to farmers previously than the Irish market did as we exported a lot of our product. While the difference in branded and unbranded is huge in price Supermarket only contract a certain amount at that price and convenience shops the same. I imagine that a lot of convenience only take a limited amount of this milk as there margin is much higher on the branded product and if you are buying milk after 8pm at night you are stuck and will not be travelling another mile or two to save a euro which you will spend on car fuel anyway. The co-op do not pocket the difference between branded and unbranded most of the difference goes to the shop. It is the same with other branded products wheather they are sweets, biscuits, breakfast cereals, sugar, meat or burgers. I think this journalist as is Joe public in for a shock over the next ten years. Food inflation is going to be a serious issue. We have had 30 years of virtually stagnant food prices at farm gate level. For the last 10 years farm input inflation is out striping all other inflation. Just to give you an example 10 years ago Urea(a fertilizer) traded at about 230/ton this year it is about 430/ton ( I am a small producer so have not got the bargaining power of bigger producers). Cattle rations were about 160/ton last winter they were nearly 300/ton. The biggest hike has been fuel from about 35c/litre to about 90c/litre this has added cost right up the line.
eireannBEAR wrote: » 1.29c per 2 liters of bainne ur. do the cheaper milks such as strathroy pay less to the farmers than avonmore?
keep going wrote: » Milk went up a cent andhalf for august last night in west cork and we think this is the highest it has ever been.so make the most of it because you know what happens next.coop is .47 % over quota at endof aug and running 7 % ahead of 2011 for sept (17% ahead of2013)
Milked out wrote: » whats the base price now?
whelan1 wrote: » spoke with a lakelands supplier at the mart, he said his milk protein figure didnt go above 2,8 all winter and it hasnt gone above 3.2 all summer:eek: i said is it feeding or breeding thats the problem, he looked at me like i had 3 heads.. he said sure you cant have yields and solids. What way do lakelands pay i assume its more or less the same as glanbia
delaval wrote: » A few guys here to disprove him. At least his butterfat adjustment won't put him over quota!!!
keep going wrote: » Off the top of my bad head , 42.7 I think.correction I think thats the average price paid out.soon as I can ill doublecheck
TEAT SQUEEZER wrote: » its a funny world, proteins are as good as ever they were here 3.82% fr/ho herd. as a liquid supplier in glanbia the price band agreement cost me 200 euro a week for august:mad::mad::mad:
case 956 wrote: » 1st year milking and protein struggled to get off from been 2.99 in feb to 3.03 in july and that was the highest it ever been to 3.70 this week and thats from a pure br/ho herd all 1st lactation animals... i dont know whether it down to me concentrating on the grassland and improving quality of grass or what
keep going wrote: » Country.36% under end august
kevthegaff wrote: » How ye finding the milking game case?
whitebriar wrote: » Looks like by November that will be heading into overquota with what looks like a lengthy Indian summer on the way? Another one Ken ring has got wrong,but then who listens to that quack?
delaval wrote: » Is the forecast that good?
whelan1 wrote: » could have my cows out til christmas yet:D
whitebriar wrote: » Can never be definite,and in my view,there will be rain at times but it looks at the moment as though,it might pan out that milking cows could be kept out well into November,as it won't be cold and there mightn't be a lot of rain. Anyone that put fert out in the last week should see a very good response? certainly Monday onwards for a week or so is looking warm (low 20's). Beyond that high pressure looks like being close by,hence,rain shouldn't be too problematic! Especially in the east/south? Fingers crossed.
delaval wrote: » Careful you need grass in Feb!!!!!
loveta wrote: » Did he not give a balmy sep 2013 last year and then the weather to "fall of" as he put it quiet quickly after that??? Well thats the way i read it any ways
