I kid you not

[The Heron]

Just watching an interview on BBC and the Interviewer asked a farmer if farmers could stop the cows from producing milk I don't know how he kept a straight face. 😂

[B725]

The farm I'm going to tomorrow has been told to cut milk production by 3% all the dairy farms on the same contract have been told to do the same, they will be penalised if they don't. On the news last night one farmer just emptied the milk tank down the drain as he couldn't sell it.

[islandgun]

Disgrace !!

[eggy74]

Slightly off topic, but there was a "journalist" asking a heart surgeon about postponed heart transplants atm due to the virus, actual question was 

" Are you finding less donors are coming forward?"

Dr amazingly kept a straight face

[twenty]

Double page article about the milk situation in the Mail today,

Basically the tankers are not collecting, and the milk is being pumped to slurry pits,

Dairy farmers losing thousands of pounds..................meanwhile there is a milk shortage in the supermarkets.

9 minutes ago, eggy74 said:

Slightly off topic, but there was a "journalist" asking a heart surgeon about postponed heart transplants atm due to the virus, actual question was 

" Are you finding less donors are coming forward?"

Dr amazingly kept a straight face

Classic..

[B725]

But we still import milk from the EU , why don't we ban the import and look after our own farmer's after all we are supposed to have left the EU.

[oldypigeonpopper]

Just now, B725 said:

But we still import milk from the EU , why don't we ban the import and look after our own farmer's after all we are supposed to have left the EU.

hello, i very much agree, we should not be pouring down the drain, was that for lack of transport though ?

[Newbie to this]

2 minutes ago, B725 said:

But we still import milk from the EU , why don't we ban the import and look after our own farmer's after all we are supposed to have left the EU.

Because those in charge are too soft

[B725]

I can't see transport being the problem if some farmer's are told to reduce production by 3% , I asked how they are going to do and they will reduce the food to the cow's. They have a dietitian come once a month or so to analyze the diet mix for the cow's .

[twenty]

19 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, i very much agree, we should not be pouring down the drain, was that for lack of transport though ?

No, it was the big milk users like Muller, and Freshways, not requiring the same capacity, because of all the coffee shops etc, being closed

20 minutes ago, B725 said:

I can't see transport being the problem if some farmer's are told to reduce production by 3% , I asked how they are going to do and they will reduce the food to the cow's. They have a dietitian come once a month or so to analyze the diet mix for the cow's .

They are out to pasture now though, it is the highest yield time of the year, 20litres per cow per milking.

[old man]

40 minutes ago, B725 said:

But we still import milk from the EU , why don't we ban the import and look after our own farmer's after all we are supposed to have left the EU.

Possibility of it being cheaper due to subsidy?

[Walker570]

That was one concern of a pro Brexit farmer I spoke with. His deal is with a firm based in Denmark.  These firms seem to try and find every way to screw the dairy farmer.

[Mice!]

2 hours ago, twenty said:

Dairy farmers losing thousands of pounds..................meanwhile there is a milk shortage in the supermarkets.

I haven't seen a supermarket without milk.

[twenty]

1 hour ago, Mice! said:

I haven't seen a supermarket without milk.

A MILK SHORTAGE, apparently UHT milk is in short supply, the long life stuff, Cravendale was quoted.

I have a milkman, so I'm all right Jack,

All the best 

[Scully]

There was a farmer on the news this morning who had tipped his milk down the drain as there was no outlet for it. He supplied the hospitality sector, such as airlines and restaurants, and as we all know, that outlet has dried up. 
He’ll probably have had a reason why he went into contract with that sector, but as he has no other outlet, he was scuppered. 

[twenty]

22 minutes ago, Scully said:

There was a farmer on the news this morning who had tipped his milk down the drain as there was no outlet for it. He supplied the hospitality sector, such as airlines and restaurants, and as we all know, that outlet has dried up. 
He’ll probably have had a reason why he went into contract with that sector, but as he has no other outlet, he was scuppered. 

Yeah apparently all dairy farmers are contracted to the big companies, they  cannot just change to a different buyer  .......the price paid to farmers also dropped again recently.

[NoBodyImportant]

Farmers over here are dumping milk in fields because there is a surplus.  Milk prices are bottoming out as the restaurant industry has came to a halt.  So they choose to dump it rather then flood the market farther. 

Edited April 10, 2020 by NoBodyImportant

[AVB]

Slightly OT but sort of related. A friend of mine runs a number of boutique coffee shops on Railway Stations. He has been successful in taking over leases previously run by the larger chains where they were not profitable. The reason for their losses was waste, particularly milk. They were throwing away hundreds of gallons of milk every day and the limited revenues they were making on some stations couldn’t cover this. Sounds a simple problem to crack (he did) but for some reason the larger chains couldn’t appear to deal with it. 

[oldypigeonpopper]

6 minutes ago, AVB said:

Slightly OT but sort of related. A friend of mine runs a number of boutique coffee shops on Railway Stations. He has been successful in taking over leases previously run by the larger chains where they were not profitable. The reason for their losses was waste, particularly milk. They were throwing away hundreds of gallons of milk every day and the limited revenues they were making on some stations couldn’t cover this. Sounds a simple problem to crack (he did) but for some reason the larger chains couldn’t appear to deal with it. 

hello, larger chain coffee shops have substantial overheads to many C E Os and share holders and charge a fortune for their coffees so less people buy, i presume your friend is not in that category

[mel b3]

18 hours ago, The Heron said:

Just watching an interview on BBC and the Interviewer asked a farmer if farmers could stop the cows from producing milk I don't know how he kept a straight face. 😂

I think that if I'd have been that farmer , I'd have told the interviewer that I would stop the cows from producing milk , and get them to lay eggs instead 😆.

[oldypigeonpopper]

14 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

I think that if I'd have been that farmer , I'd have told the interviewer that I would stop the cows from producing milk , and get them to lay eggs instead 😆.

hello, it does make you wonder what planet some of these reporters live on !!! 

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, reminds me of when Thatcher stopped the free school milk leaving many Dairy farmers giving up their milking herds, i fear even more now will be doing the same,

Edited April 10, 2020 by oldypigeonpopper

[B725]

22 hours ago, twenty said:

No, it was the big milk users like Muller, and Freshways, not requiring the same capacity, because of all the coffee shops etc, being closed

They are out to pasture now though, it is the highest yield time of the year, 20litres per cow per milking.

I asked today if their yeild will go up now the cow's are out as of today but due to high quality winter feeding it stays roughly the same all year. 

[twenty]

1 hour ago, B725 said:

I asked today if their yeild will go up now the cow's are out as of today but due to high quality winter feeding it stays roughly the same all year. 

A lot less work for the farmers though, no slurry, no scraping , no feeding and pushing back, and a very high quality milk from grass to boot,

Still terrible to see it being wasted though.

All the best.