17-06-2021, 03:17 PM
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Re: Return of milk bottles !!
Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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Considering that dairy farmers only get about 20p/lt (~11.4p/pt) for their milk, someone, somewhere in the supply chain is making a bomb. I suspect it's the processors like Dairy Crest and the like.
17-06-2021, 03:26 PM
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Re: Return of milk bottles !!
Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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Oh dear that is so bad, Percy! It isn't something I really thought about, but that price is just awful!
17-06-2021, 03:38 PM
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Re: Return of milk bottles !!
Pixie, if you have time, watch this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...le-county-down The bit to watch is where Matt Baker is talking to the farmer about how he's using technology and "zero grazing" to improve his milking costs.
17-06-2021, 03:42 PM
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Re: Return of milk bottles !!
Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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Still bad though - and like you say, for the amount of work involved... 
17-06-2021, 03:55 PM
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Re: Return of milk bottles !!
Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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Pixie, if you have time, watch this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...le-county-down The bit to watch is where Matt Baker is talking to the farmer about how he's using technology and "zero grazing" to improve his milking costs.
17-06-2021, 07:37 PM
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Re: Return of milk bottles !!
Originally Posted by Mups
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And also, for those out at work, milk would then be left sitting on the doorstep in the heat until tea time, too.
of the house were just that ??
Donkeyman! 👍👍
17-06-2021, 08:51 PM
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I answered an add on the internet that wanted self employed drivers to do courier work for a bloke and his daughter who had bought the franchise of a nationwide courier service.I answered the add and that's how I started my career in courier work.
It turns out the bloke was a farmer who ran a dairy herd of around a thousand cows that his father and grandfather had done before him. He had built his own bottling and pasteurising plant, and even delivered personally to the local shops. It had served the family well for over 100 years.
The crunch came while he was delivering to a local store and realised that the bottled water cost more than a bottle of his milk that he and his ladies had spent so much time and effort on.
We made a lot of money together delivering parcels and other assorted goods to every corner of Britain, I don't know what happened to the dairy cows.........
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