Poor old Farmers ............ again :-(

 And AGAIN the Farmers are having a bleat, this time on two fronts.

1) Oh dear, no water. ""We want rain to make our crops grow or you will pay
more in the shops""  Now there' a surprise ........ not

2) This dreadful Cucumber Business in Germany. ""You will have to pay more
for the crops we grow in the UK because you know they are safe""
........................ WHY????

Why why WHY do the farmers ALWAYS bleat hard times time and time again?

Have you ever seen a poor farmer?

Have you ever seen a farmers market/ball cancelled because of lack of
support because 'The Farmers cannot afford it'?

NO

The word WOLF comes to mind YET AGAIN

Mike

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 'All.finished'@woolies.com says...

There are plenty of them around here, where hill farming of sheep is the
only possibility. Also we know that dairy farmers get less per lire for
their milk than it takes to produce (unless you run a super farm!).

Suggest you look at the bankrupcies and suicide rates for farmers before
taring them all with the same brush.


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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

 Roger Tonkin wrote:

Then why are they producing it? Something economically wrong there, isn't
there?


Ian

 

Supermarkets provide  a ready market for them but dictate the amount they
are going to pay for their produce.  One very good reason why farmers are
sometimes desperate.

Bill

 Bill Grey wrote:

You can't sell goods for less than your production costs. If farmer A can't
produce milk for price X, and farmer B can, then all that can happen is
farmer A leaves the milk production market. That's how economic growth
occurs, with the better supplier knocking the inferior supplier out of the
market. Which is often unpleasant for the individuals concerned, but
ultimately good for everyone.

The thing is, nobody can "dictate" a price. I can say I'll only pay £100 for
a Ferrari, but I can't make Ferrari sell me one for that price. Likewise if
the supermarkets demand milk at a cheaper price than it can be produced,
they will get no milk, because there won't be any producers at that price.

Any farmer foolish enough to sell milk at below cost must be
cross-subsidising it from some profitable enterprise, e.g. crops or sheep or
something. He needs to get out of the cow juice business. He's destroying
value in the economy, and in his own bank account.


Ian