Dairy Farmer Issues

[bobthebilda]

Ok, i dont mean to sound like an insensitive *****, and am willing to be further informed, but alot of the issues and outcry from Dairy farmers doesnt make much sense to me. From my understanding,most of the larger Milk processors are either Farmer cooperatives,or were Farmer cooperatives. Thus its actually the Farmers who are the shareholders of the processors, and in reality it themselves who have elected individuals to offer them a lower milk price. If you look at the Board of Directors of Murray Goulburn, most of them have Dairy Farms.

Off course, they are offering these lower prices, due to lower world prices. But its also the Farmers etc that wanted the world to be open up to allow them to chase other markets. I cant recall the farmers complaining when they were receiving too much money when things were going good.

Again, the Price of milk (or the price of solids - which i think milk prices are based on), has fallen due to production out stripping demand. Is it not just the world saying, cut down on your production, and prices will stabalise. Is farming somehow different to any other business?

Last time i checked, Neither Coles or Woolworths had special machines that allowed them to make Milk. They are getting their Milk from Dairy Farmers. Its not Coles or Woolworths or even Customers that are damaging Dairy Farmers, is it not themselves.

Maybe Dairy Farmers should form a sort of Union (Farmers Union sounds logical, but already taken lol). Oh actually they already do, its called Farmer Cooperatives like Murray Goulburn etc.