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The price of milk
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:10 |
Supermarkets like Morrisons and Asda continue to sell milk below the cost it takes to produce.. |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:13 |
Haven't they come to an agreement today? |
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:23 |
I only read that Morrisons are going to be selling a more expensive bottle of milk which gives the consumer the option of paying a little extra to the farmer. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:24 |
By Emily Gosden |
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:27 |
We left the dairy industry many years ago after losing money for some years, my husband's family having farmed for generations. |
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:28 |
Thank you, Rollo :-) :-) |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:32 |
The problem is that global demand has fallen, especially in China. |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:34 |
Wasn't this on the news this afternoon in simple terms? |
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:37 |
That was the problem, Sheila. We had invested in new buildings and were just in the process of increasing the herd and had taken on huge borrowings just when quotas were introduced. We missed out on receiving enough quota.. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:51 |
That's so sad, Lavender. |
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:53 |
I agree, Sheila :-) |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 11 Aug 2015 22:58 |
It is very hard out there indeed and a real world. |
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lavender | Report | 11 Aug 2015 23:20 |
It can't be right that they are paid less money than it costs to produce? |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 11 Aug 2015 23:29 |
It's a market economy - if you don't like it then get out - too many farmers cry poverty whilst they sell off their fields for development - ie support raping the countryside |
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supercrutch | Report | 11 Aug 2015 23:33 |
When we bought the farm in 1986 we could have bought milk quotas for pennies. We decided not to because we would have been minions in the local market. |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 11 Aug 2015 23:55 |
That is a lovely and beautiful naive attitude but not exactly correct today. |
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lavender | Report | 12 Aug 2015 00:00 |
I'm just sorry that the fabric of the countryside will change, there used to be several farms around our village. |
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lavender | Report | 12 Aug 2015 00:04 |
I think you must have been listening to the guy on the radio speaking this afternoon, Errol? I only caught the back end of it, was a load of tosh. |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 12 Aug 2015 00:05 |
There are still farms everywhere ! |
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lavender | Report | 12 Aug 2015 00:07 |
The dairy farms are fast disappearing. I can't even think of a dairy herd in our area, probably not for ten miles. |