Farmgate milk prices

History
Farmgate milk prices were, pre................................

Big milk processors then competed for milk with the co-ops and there was a temporary escalation in farmgate price with the plc processors offering the larger ‘carrots’ to attract direct suppliers.

http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/hot-topics/farmgate-milk-p...
FIND out how milk prices are determined, how the market developed and keep up ... The boards bought milk from farmers and sold it to processors and dairies. .... free fuel for tractors, they can claim quite a lot of perks, such as land-rovers etc.

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ebbadger said:

I can assure you all this isn't a wind up but on the front of my series there is a small brass plaque (located on the apron) that simply states Milk Marketing Board, I naturally assumed it had been fitted by some classic car / milk loving loon, but having done a few search engines have found a single reference to the Milk Marketing Board offering various incentives to farmers years ago to get them 'signed up', I assume to the board and co-operative type arrangements, incentives ranging from free tractor fuel to Landrovers :0 ??
It is simply a one liner in a paragraph from a search engine hit though and no more..... so anybody ever come across this one??

and I wonder if Smirnoff would be interested in a similar promotion... I will happily sign up to drinking their product if they give me a new Fender

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Cheers Steve

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ebbadger said:

I can assure you all this isn't a wind up but on the front of my series there is a small brass plaque (located on the apron) that simply states Milk Marketing Board, I naturally assumed it had been fitted by some classic car / milk loving loon, but having done a few search engines have found a single reference to the Milk Marketing Board offering various incentives to farmers years ago to get them 'signed up', I assume to the board and co-operative type arrangements, incentives ranging from free tractor fuel to Landrovers :0 ??
It is simply a one liner in a paragraph from a search engine hit though and no more..... so anybody ever come across this one??

and I wonder if Smirnoff would be interested in a similar promotion... I will happily sign up to drinking their product if they give me a new Fender

Picture to follow but the item I found albeit very little is shown below....




Here goes .....

Cheers Steve

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buckshot said:

MMB was a nationised company that collected most of the milk in this country , you'll probably find your landy was company owned for a milk tester (think they were called milk recorders) .
they had guys that went around to farms taking samples of the milk direct from the farms.
think most farmers would happily go back to MMB as they get a pretty **** deal these days

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jamesmartin said:

i would haver rather seen the country side full of small farmers and cows than longer dole queues and foreign or factory produced

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buckshot said:

end of MMB and milk quota's was the end of that , **** when you see how much hand outs the frog farmers get for being so inept at farming
EU was the other nail in the coffin of our agriculture (MHO)

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jamesmartin said:

milk marketing board was more than that it it was set up to ensure farmers got a fair price for milk so ensuring a plentyful regular supply of milk and so that a low price one year didnt bankrupt farmers and then buy milk from abroad once the price was high ,a better situation than we have now were the supermarkets have driven the price down to the farmer so much you rarely see them now
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...NXI0NSFnYNfW4u7Hg&sig2=UtMXEUsopzFH8Nk2NkgUBw

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jamesmartin said:

i would haver rather seen the country side full of small farmers and cows than longer dole queues and foreign or factory produced

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Soloby Rob said:

Long gone I'm sorry to say, small milk farmers knew ever cow by name, they cared for their cows in a way not heard of today, they made an honest living from their cows and cared with passion for the land they farmed.

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neiltce said:

You are missing something out..

The MMB also used the own the artificial insimination to, and used to have land rovers to carry the semen straws in nitrogen filled flasks to the farms to complete the task...

That is probably why you have the badge on your landy

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buckshot said:

i agree , my landlord of our storage shed/yard is probably 1 of the last around here they have a small (by todays standards) herd and they know all thier cows and are very attentitive of their herd

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neiltce said:

The flasks with the semen straws in was about 18 to 24 inches high and about 18 inches across shaped similar to a milk churn....

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ebbadger said:

bugger ... same size as the thermos im currently supping..... damn thought this vanilla milkshake was oddly salty

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neiltce said:

The flasks with the semen straws in was about 18 to 24 inches high and about 18 inches across shaped similar to a milk churn....

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buckshot said:

i agree , my landlord of our storage shed/yard is probably 1 of the last around here they have a small (by todays standards) herd and they know all thier cows and are very attentitive of their herd

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neiltce said:

30 years in farming,

Till foot and mouth in 2001.. That wiped us out. And I left..

We used to do our own AI on the farm.. Much cheaper than MMB.. Last dairy farm I worked on we had 459 milkers, and 80 followers. Milking twice a day on a 20/20 herringbone parlour..

Miss it like mad but there is no return..

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