New thinking needed to avoid spring milk crisis

摘要

The dairy industry needs some radical new thinking if it is to avoid a price collapse next spring, warned Kite consultant John Allen this week. With under-production this spring, all the signs are that farmers are gearing up to produce as much milk aspossible this coming winter with a consequent price collapse next spring. "The country is under quota, feed prices have eased back, first cut silage stocks are very high quality and cows that would normally be culled are being kept or sold into other herds Now is the time for the dairy industry to act responsibly and come up with a strategy to encourage production to contracted volumes rather than quota," he argues.