Would you pay extra for a pint of milk

The doorstep mikman delivery is slowly dieing away..When i worked for the dairy firm they had 10 floats (lorrys) delivering milk to folks now their is only 2 floats (lorrys) doing the doorstep deliverys...

 

Wholesale cheese was £2/Kg in 2007 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/jul/15/food.lifeandhealth and I'm sure 'value' cheese was around £3.50/Kg in supermarkets around that time, and it's now about £6/Kg.

So who's raking in the difference?

We used to happily pay around £3.50/Kg for years, but it suddenly increased


P.S. My In-laws got out of dairy farming in the early 1960's and they thought they had it hard.

 

Ive not thought of using it in coffee sheal but ive just found this which sounds like a nice latte..
http://natureinsider.com/en/2011/01/delicious-almond-milk-latte/

 

so nothing as changed in 40+ years,

I did hear that the contracts between farmer and middleman has not changed much from the MMB days, if that is correct this may be were the problem lies?

 

I also remember from the MMB days that if the Dairy farmers went over their quota they would get fined..So probably that hasn't changed either

 

Yes

 

A few farmers have contracts with supermarkets and the milk is collected/bottle by the middle man for the supermarket

Most farmers have contracts with the middle man

I understand that contracts are tight, but what baffles me is why the farmers continually sign up to some thing thats not beneficial to them??

 

Now why doesn't that surprise me ?
Jenny

 

Sadly the way the product changes hands and the price it does so just suits the big businesses and the shareholders.

Typical example of what happens when they put the Rat in charge of the cheese larder..