Dairy Farmers are not 'milking it'

SailorSam

I knew i'd seen a thread about the farmers & milk, i've been searching for it in the obvious place, either the Arms or the Discussion and was just about to start a new thread 'cos it wasn't there.
What have farmers and milk got to do with House Prices. I wish when starting threads posters would take a bit of care which section they post in. It makes it much easier to add to the discussion,
Rant Over.
Morrisons supermarkets have agreed to start selling a new brand of 'farmers milk' which will be more expensive but with the extra going to the farmers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33857629

remorseless

SailorSam wrote: »

Morrisons supermarkets have agreed to start selling a new brand of 'farmers milk' which will be more expensive but with the extra going to the farmers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33857629

Sounds more like a Morrisons headline to attract customers, what was stopping them before? Oh they want customers to pay for the farmers investment by buying milk in a special bottle!

SailorSam

remorseless wrote: »

Sounds more like a Morrisons headline to attract customers, what was stopping them before? Oh they want customers to pay for the farmers investment by buying milk in a special bottle!

It's not Morrisons that's helping the farmers, all they're doing is giving customers the opportunity to pay more, if they think are farmers are worth it. A bit like them selling organic food or fair trade coffee.

Rolnagraten

michaels wrote: »

It will be easy enough to test this by seeing what retail prices are in a few years time if the retaliatory sanctions have been dropped.

I wonder what the price of dairy products in Russia is now?

Maybe they will build up their own industry, however I think there
are a number of factors of the than the sanction however it seems there has been
a fall in global demand, I guess the sanctions play a big part in that, China too
is importing less I think.

Rolnagraten

The should be anouncement on the self scans,

"Cheap milk Purchased "
"Farmer's Milk purchased "

kabayiri

SailorSam wrote: »

I knew i'd seen a thread about the farmers & milk, i've been searching for it in the obvious place, either the Arms or the Discussion and was just about to start a new thread 'cos it wasn't there.
What have farmers and milk got to do with House Prices. I wish when starting threads posters would take a bit of care which section they post in. It makes it much easier to add to the discussion,
Rant Over.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33857629

If you read the original post, you would see it is about technology as applied to farming, just as we would discuss the economic benefits of the robot apocalypse.

Or do you not consider a milking robot a robot? I can tell you it very much is.

Of course, how a thread develops is down to how people see it. I'm sadly a nuts n bolts type, and I don't see the issue the way others do when it comes to global trends etc. That's the strength of this forum area I think. Topics take on a wider context.

Rant reply over.

SailorSam

kabayiri wrote: »

If you read the original post, you would see it is about technology as applied to farming, just as we would discuss the economic benefits of the robot apocalypse.

Rant reply over.

Can you just explain please. why ?
"the economic benefits of the robot apocalypse" would go in a Housing thread.

chewmylegoff

SailorSam wrote: »

Can you just explain please. why ?
"the economic benefits of the robot apocalypse" would go in a Housing thread.

Read the board title again and pay particular attention to the "& the economy" bit.

kabayiri

SailorSam wrote: »

Can you just explain please. why ?
"the economic benefits of the robot apocalypse" would go in a Housing thread.

Very few threads are about housing. Most are about the economy, be it the Scottish economy post independence, or the budget and it's impact on the economy.

If it is about housing then I shall have to declare myself out. I have no idea of my house value in this country. I don't have a mortgage so can't even comment on rates with any recent knowledge.

SailorSam

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Read the board title again and pay particular attention to the "& the economy" bit.

I did read that, and i took it to mean housing and the economy.
If we're going to say this section is for any story that effects the economy we could start to discuss benefits; taxation; sport; the weather; competitions; motoring; politics; immigration, the Nhs etc etc etc absolutely every subject we talk about here in one way or another is effected by the economy.
It's just a pet hate of mine as i know it is with others when you go to make a post and check has someone else already started a thread. So you check where you'd expect the thread might be and when there's nothing there you start a new one, only to find there is something in a different part of the forum.