Morrison's "Farmer's milk"

snowcat75

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Makes me laugh jo public whinging on and saying they back the farmers blah blah.... I worked in a supermarket and the cheap milk always sold out first. Jo public would be happy for milk prices to go even lower if it wasn't for the recent media coverage.

That's the crux TBH, there's been surveys done before shoppers have entered supermarkets and punters have been asked what influences they use to decide before buying an item, Typically, Traceability, Animal welfare, UK origin etc all scored top. The same baskets were looked at on Exit, and the criteria had slumped into two for one offers and price.

colino

Absolutely laughable. An, "industry" so supported by government and the EU that only large scale commercial operations actually make real profits, the useless underbelly of the rest rely on handouts, grants and subsidies and have done so for so long, they are far from being independent, commercial businesses.
Without subsidy, New Zealand farmers managed to decimate lamb sales in the UK, with all the added costs of sending their added value, processed and chilled/frozen product half-way round the world.
The Chinese, with all their expansionist policies buying up farms, have already declared they can supply all of the UKs liquid milk needs for less than the current UK farm gate price.
Paying farmers to have hobby farms, and even worse, paying them to do nothing, had a start when increasing yields, modernisation and food security were at the core of subsidies. Now we have second and third generation farmers who appear to think whatever a hash they make of their own business, everyone will bail them out, and of course, pay them handsomely for their idle farmland when they want to retire.
Why not start paying your newsagent an extra 10p per newspaper in the run up to his holidays too?

[Deleted User]

Get your milk delivered by your local milkman. It tastes better from a glass bottle with cream on top, not that horrible watered down supermarket stuff.

I still pass at least 2 milk floats on the way to work most mornings.

Gigervamp

Most people don't give a fig about animal welfare, where the food has come from or the fact that farmers are having to sell up. All they care about is how much it costs. It's short termism. They don't consider the effect it will have when all the food has to be imported.

I wouldn't touch Chinese milk with a bargepole. They can't even make baby formula without contaminating it with poison.

And all this venom for farmers. Have you ever worked on a farm? Do you know how hard it is? Did you know that a lot of farmers don't own their land, but are tenant farmers, renting fields and buildings?

I have milk delivered by the milkman and pay about 67p a pint to my independent milkman. When we run out, we buy organic milk from Tesco or Sainsbury.

We buy meat from the farmers at the very good farmer's market near us. We don't have lots of money, so we make the most of what we do have and also eat a lot of veggie meals.

People should be supporting the farmers.

snowcat75

colino wrote: »

Absolutely laughable. An, "industry" so supported by government and the EU that only large scale commercial operations actually make real profits, the useless underbelly of the rest rely on handouts, grants and subsidies and have done so for so long, they are far from being independent, commercial businesses.
Without subsidy, New Zealand farmers managed to decimate lamb sales in the UK, with all the added costs of sending their added value, processed and chilled/frozen product half-way round the world.
The Chinese, with all their expansionist policies buying up farms, have already declared they can supply all of the UKs liquid milk needs for less than the current UK farm gate price.
Paying farmers to have hobby farms, and even worse, paying them to do nothing, had a start when increasing yields, modernisation and food security were at the core of subsidies. Now we have second and third generation farmers who appear to think whatever a hash they make of their own business, everyone will bail them out, and of course, pay them handsomely for their idle farmland when they want to retire.
Why not start paying your newsagent an extra 10p per newspaper in the run up to his holidays too?

That statement has so many holes in you should become a miner,


Buy yourself a farm, run it for 10 years and tell us how many hand-outs and how many hours your sat idle for,


Neither NZ nor North America have any direct subsidy's true, but they have a whole heap of indirect ones, including grants from crop spraying to fencing, even fuel costs.

rockchick113

We still use the milk man, and as long as we have that option we will always get our milk delivered. Farmers get a fair price and keeps the milkman in a job.