Re: Australian milk prices for bruce centash and who ever else

Posted by philip d on March 17, 2019 at 02:18:26 from (96.44.72.74):

In Reply to: Australian milk prices for bruce centash and who ever else posted by down under farmer on March 16, 2019 at 21:53:21:

It’s really not all that much better in Canada. My Dad passed away a little over 7 years ago. My wife and I managed the farm for a year before we bought my mom out. At that time we were getting 78c/litre for our milk. Help was near impossible to find let alone keep as most people don’t like milking cows 7 days a week even with every second weekend off. We decided along with buying her out we’d put in a Delaval robot. It works quite well for the most part. Enter in diafiltered milk. That displaced 30% of our domestic protein and our milk price fell below 70c. In all my years on the farm my parents woukd complain that the price of milk only came up a half a cent in this years price adjustment or isn’t changing this year,it never dropped. The farm had a fair bit of quota debt plus we bought land a few years before we bought,funded my moms retirement added a robot than our milk price took a hit. That went on for 5 years. We’ve had it. We’ve decided to sell our quota while we still can and pay off the farm and go work elsewhere while keeping our land while it’s still an option. I haul manure to a neighbors farm. Not that many years ago another family owned it and had 1200 head of beef. They had hogs and at one time 250 acres of potato’s rotated on 500 owned plus rented land. A few bad years of potatoes cost them most of their land and a few bad years of beef cost them everything else they had but their personal belongings. That’s not going to be me if I have other options. There’s a noticeable push here to scrap supply management. Yes it’s broken and not working like it used to and yes our government is giving our market away to make other countries happy at our expense but the consumer is being duped by the retailers and processors that if supply management goes they will only pay half at the grocery store. We all know that’s a lie. I really don’t know how much longer this downward trend in dairy will continue but many farms are refinanced to the limit and can’t take that much more. I have one neighbor that a year ago couldn’t pay off his previous years fertilizer bill and was at the point of being cut off his feed supply so just switched suppliers and went on an equipment shopping spree. I’m not sure how he pulled that off but we’re not doing that either. No one owes me a living and if I can’t make our farm self supporting I’m out while the getting is good. Call me a quitter or call me smart but I know with 100% certainty my dad would be proud of our decision considering the situation.

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