Grr how dare basic foods like milk be allowed to get cheaper. Outrageous so it is.
Edit: I wonder how many people who are downvoting me have been complaining about inflation in food prices over the last year.
I been hearing that the dairy sector is booming with farmers buying land to expand their herds.
The farmers lobby will be begging for price controls next
Don’t blame the farmers here. They get paid about 18c a ltr for milk. About a tenth if what it’s sold for by the supermarket
Auld oat milk is a grand replacement for cows milk. I’m sure the farmers were at breaking point about that being sold at some stage too, while quietly diddling their taxes and getting all the kids free college. My heart bleeds.
Average dairy farm income 2022: €148,000
They did lobby for a reduction in CAP quotas while pushing for expansion. The big boys in the IFA need to brush up on supply/demand…but it’s the smaller farmers I have sympathy for.
Milk is dirt cheap alright.
The classic poor farmer
How long until they’re protesting outside supermarkets? Amazing how they rarely target the creamerys that they sell their raw product to. They’re getting around 40c a litre for their milk. Supermarkets are paying suppliers around 90c for a litre of milk but they’re complaining about them passing savings onto customers. They’d have another complaint if they kept the price customers were paying the same when the farmers are getting less.
Fucking piss an moaners the lot of them
It’s actually ridiculous for these farms to continue to be subsidised for producing hugely unsustainable products.
There are better options like converting to crops like oats, which is a big growth area and can be done in Ireland.
Isn’t 90% of dairy output going to the Asian market? How does a local supermarket price war impact that trade?
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Hmm, are farmers ever not at breaking point according to their representative groups?
[Dairy farmers ‘near breaking point’ (irishexaminer.com)](https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-41115157.html)
[Surge in input prices puts farmers at breaking point | Independent.ie](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/surge-in-input-prices-puts-farmers-at-breaking-point/40894416.html)
[Bowler egg producers at breaking point 21 September 2022 Free (farmersjournal.ie)](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/bowler-egg-producers-at-breaking-point-724063)
[Farmers at “breaking point” – Tipperary Live](https://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/farming-news/161992/Farmers-at–breaking-point-.html)
[Farmers’ patience at ‘breaking point’, IFA warns – The Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/farmers-patience-at-breaking-point-ifa-warns-1.455531)
[Farmers at ‘breaking point’ – The Munster Express (munster-express.ie)](https://www.munster-express.ie/front-page-news/farmers-at-breaking-point/)
Grr how dare basic foods like milk be allowed to get cheaper. Outrageous so it is.
Edit: I wonder how many people who are downvoting me have been complaining about inflation in food prices over the last year.
I been hearing that the dairy sector is booming with farmers buying land to expand their herds.
The farmers lobby will be begging for price controls next
Don’t blame the farmers here. They get paid about 18c a ltr for milk. About a tenth if what it’s sold for by the supermarket
Auld oat milk is a grand replacement for cows milk. I’m sure the farmers were at breaking point about that being sold at some stage too, while quietly diddling their taxes and getting all the kids free college. My heart bleeds.
Average dairy farm income 2022: €148,000
They did lobby for a reduction in CAP quotas while pushing for expansion. The big boys in the IFA need to brush up on supply/demand…but it’s the smaller farmers I have sympathy for.
Milk is dirt cheap alright.
The classic poor farmer
How long until they’re protesting outside supermarkets? Amazing how they rarely target the creamerys that they sell their raw product to. They’re getting around 40c a litre for their milk. Supermarkets are paying suppliers around 90c for a litre of milk but they’re complaining about them passing savings onto customers. They’d have another complaint if they kept the price customers were paying the same when the farmers are getting less.
Fucking piss an moaners the lot of them
It’s actually ridiculous for these farms to continue to be subsidised for producing hugely unsustainable products.
There are better options like converting to crops like oats, which is a big growth area and can be done in Ireland.
Isn’t 90% of dairy output going to the Asian market? How does a local supermarket price war impact that trade?