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Would You Pay More For A Pint?
.......of milk at the supermarket?
How can the dairy farmers continue to produce milk when it costs them 28p/day to produce it and they have to sell it at 23p?
This has been going on for ages and in my view is, wrong. I wouldn't mind paying an extra few pence. No business can survive selling their goods at a loss.
How can the dairy farmers continue to produce milk when it costs them 28p/day to produce it and they have to sell it at 23p?
This has been going on for ages and in my view is, wrong. I wouldn't mind paying an extra few pence. No business can survive selling their goods at a loss.
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Why do the breweries not complain when the supermarkets sell beer at below cost price as a 'loss leader'.? Because the supermarkets buy the beer at a higher price than they sell it for and take the loss to bring more people into the shops. I do not see why they do not do the same with milk. If they want to sell it cheap as a form of advertising , just take the loss, it all...
08:04 Wed 05th Aug 2015
Not likely. In fact, I'd schlepp across town to get a few extra pence off. It's called supply and demand and unless you're sucking on the state teat we're all subject to it. It's how capitalism is supposed to work.
Talking of the state teat, I don't suppose EU farm subsidies ever get a mention in the poor farmers' sob stories.
Talking of the state teat, I don't suppose EU farm subsidies ever get a mention in the poor farmers' sob stories.
Capitalism: "An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."
How are the private owners, (the farmers) be expected to survive when they are forced to accept less than it costs them to produce the milk?
The bullies, ie, the supermarkets, are at fault here.
How are the private owners, (the farmers) be expected to survive when they are forced to accept less than it costs them to produce the milk?
The bullies, ie, the supermarkets, are at fault here.
We are already paying more for milk.
Farmers don't live on the preceeds of the milk they produce, they live off the proceeds of huge EU grants that the cows attract.. Cows are there to get grants, not to produce milk. We produce too much milk so it is powdered and dumped onto third world countries, which then decimates local milk production.
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Farmers don't live on the preceeds of the milk they produce, they live off the proceeds of huge EU grants that the cows attract.. Cows are there to get grants, not to produce milk. We produce too much milk so it is powdered and dumped onto third world countries, which then decimates local milk production.
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If the supermarkets want to attract us into their shops by offering low milk prices, it is Them, who should take the hit in their profits, not the producers of the goods.
My late husband and I had our own business. We sold the product at a price that at the very least, covered the cost of making it. If our customers wanted to sell it on at a lower price, it was again, Them who took the hit. There was no way we could have survived and employed staff if we were selling at a loss.
It just doesn't make economic sense.
My late husband and I had our own business. We sold the product at a price that at the very least, covered the cost of making it. If our customers wanted to sell it on at a lower price, it was again, Them who took the hit. There was no way we could have survived and employed staff if we were selling at a loss.
It just doesn't make economic sense.
Mikey, no it isn't.
It is a story of greedy farmers milking the EU tax payer of £millions in subsidies. It is the story of over supply, and tax payers money keeping uneconomical and unviable businesses open. We could stop paying the farmers vast amounts, and let real market forces work. Half the farms would shut, but we would still produce plenty of food and prices would not rise for the consumer. I
f the £59billion the EU gives farmers was kept by the member states, then the money could be better spent encouraging viable new businesses.
It is a story of greedy farmers milking the EU tax payer of £millions in subsidies. It is the story of over supply, and tax payers money keeping uneconomical and unviable businesses open. We could stop paying the farmers vast amounts, and let real market forces work. Half the farms would shut, but we would still produce plenty of food and prices would not rise for the consumer. I
f the £59billion the EU gives farmers was kept by the member states, then the money could be better spent encouraging viable new businesses.
All are assuming it is the nasty supermarket driving the price down. Yes they are a bit player but many are using mild and bread as a loss leader, the loss being to them the supermarket. They do this because they place these items at the back of the store and most people will buy more items from which the supermarket makes a large profit.
I'm afraid the EU has a large part to play in this. Subsidized farms in France (and other countries), subsidized by us I would like to point out, are able to sell their produce cheaper so driving the price down.
Paying extra won't necessarily help if the milk (or other produce) comes from a French farmer.
The EU does our Farming and fishing industries much harm. But try telling the europhiles that.
I'm afraid the EU has a large part to play in this. Subsidized farms in France (and other countries), subsidized by us I would like to point out, are able to sell their produce cheaper so driving the price down.
Paying extra won't necessarily help if the milk (or other produce) comes from a French farmer.
The EU does our Farming and fishing industries much harm. But try telling the europhiles that.
I'd like to see 'fair trade' products for British farmers in the same way that they do for foreign ones, so you'd get more expensive fair trade milk on the shelf alongside the ripoff stuff.
At least then the consumer would have the choice of whether they wanted to be complicit in putting our dairy farmers out of business instead of the supermarkets taking that decision for them.
At least then the consumer would have the choice of whether they wanted to be complicit in putting our dairy farmers out of business instead of the supermarkets taking that decision for them.
Yes. I have no idea how much I pay for a pint I just pay what they ask for at the till.
This is capitalism. Prices go down, some go to the wall, then there are fewer domestic producers so the price goes up again (to the cost the foreign countries export it for). If one feels a need to adjust that how about a Milk Marketing Board ? Has anyone tried that ion the past ?
This is capitalism. Prices go down, some go to the wall, then there are fewer domestic producers so the price goes up again (to the cost the foreign countries export it for). If one feels a need to adjust that how about a Milk Marketing Board ? Has anyone tried that ion the past ?
