m.youtube.com/watch?v=QZY6jC5Dh6c
For all those who say farmers always buy new equipment…
schrodingers cat:
Head above the parapet time.
Farmers are sitting on millions of pounds worth of assets, if they really felt that hard done by ,the best threat they could make would be to say they will sell up, but they don’t. The reason for this is, yes they sell milk at a loss but all the other subsidies they get actually make farming very profitable, they would just like the money from the milk to go into their bank accounts as well.
As with any self employed person, a farmer will buy the latest and best equipment to avoid paying tax, this means that as far as the taxman and everyone else sees, they make no profit. However you wont see a farmer going to a food bank, if they’re not driving the latest Range Rover its because they’ve just spent quarter of a million on a harvester or super tractor or maybe a million on a robotic milking machine so they don’t have to get out of bed at 4 in the morning.
Farmers are great, hard working, look after our countryside and keep it beautiful but poor they aren’t and if they are poor they’re doing it wrong.
Tin hat on time I think
Only if they’re not a tenant farmer.
Not sure about the argument that buying new tractors and harvesters is hiding profits from the taxman. Would many drivers be happy if employers spent some of their gross pay on smart new uniforms so they paid less tax?
I certainly don’t buy every farmer hard luck tale on offer.
eagerbeaver:
I did Northwich yesterday, no sign or talk of any trouble.
they did it mon night 20:00 hrs till midnight ish! 46 of us stuck round the back at gadbrook waiting for plod to move them on! 
D-ya not?:
yorkshire terrier:
Well at least they are getting together to stand up against the supermarkets,why not get together, and refuse to sell their product below a set price?
Many many years ago there was Milk Marketing Board, it set the price for all wholesale liquid Milk sales across the UK, and set them at an agreed price with the NFU(a kind off RHA for farmers) and bulk purchasers(supermarkets and processors).
IIRC in the 1980’s Thatcher, after lobbying from the NFU scrapped the MMB. The reason to do this was that the NFU and Thatcher Government believed that a free market in Milk would bring more efficiency and higher profits. Part off the MMB role was to issue quoter for Milk production, when the MMB was broken up, the quoters were given to the Farmers who held them at the time, and many sold their allocations off, thus making a quick windfall, in a kind off I’m alright Jack mentality. Many off the quoters were brought buy Dutch and German producers(diary farmers), giving them a hook into the UK market, and in the process denuding the UK diary herd. Though I believe that the quoters were done away with after the Single European Act came into being in the early 90’s, but by then, Northern European Producers were well established players in the UK Milk market.
So now it appears that the free market in Milk has come back to bite dairy farmers hard, the greed off the 80’s which saw the removal off the MMB guaranteed price, set at a level to allow the dairy farmer to make a reasonable living, and controls on the production and supply off Milk to the Wholesale market, have led to a race to the bottom. It was always going to be the case.
I’ve never yet met a farmer, and I’ve worked for a few, who was willing to pay any more than the bare minimum for any goods or services (inc labour) supplied to them, yet to a Man, will all believe that they’re goods or services are worth absolute top dollar. Maybe that is proper capitalism, and true business, but they take it to a level that stinks 
So I wont be supporting any farmers blockading any were, as another poster has put it, they wont turn up in their Range Rovers.
Why Farmers think that I should pay 10p a pint more for Milk, its a free market, the price set by the market that’s what they wanted all those years ago, now they have too roll with it 
Fatboy slimslow:
eagerbeaver:
I did Northwich yesterday, no sign or talk of any trouble.they did it mon night 20:00 hrs till midnight ish! 46 of us stuck round the back at gadbrook waiting for plod to move them on!
They had some pathetic mesh fence with hastily printed out private property signs on yesterday with a couple, what looked like regular warehouse staff in hi-viz, retasked to guard duty.