Over the Farmer's Gate by Roger Evans

Over the Farmer's Gate by Roger Evans

Author:Roger Evans [Roger Evans]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906122737
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books Limited
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00


ON PREVIOUS occasions I have mentioned milk prices. Well, they are finally turning the corner. We haven’t exactly found the end of the rainbow but it now seems likely that the price of milk, as it leaves farms, will return to levels we haven’t seen for 10 years. How many industries would herald the prices of 10 years ago as a triumph?

What it does signal is an end to food price deflation. This movement of milk price is driven by a world marketplace that is in turn driven by an increase in the consumption of dairy products, in Asia in particular, that is all part of a move to an improved diet by millions of people.

For too long, dairy businesses in this country have thrived on the ability to buy cheap milk; from now on, if they want a dairy business, they will have to be able to pay the price or they will not have their raw material.

We also produce chicken here and I read a recent article last week about a major supermarket selling fresh chicken by the hundreds of thousands for £2. That’s all very well for the consumer, but it completely avoids reality and gives the wrong impression of the value of food.

We pay about 25p for day-old chicks and that’s when you are buying 50,000 at a time. We make just under 4p a bird before gas, electric, water and labour. Where’s the long-term sense in that?



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