Paulatic wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 6:11pm
al_yrpal wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 5:28pm
Please tell me why one country's milk isnt as good as another country's milk?
Where do I start?
In 1970, at Agricultural college, we visited West-Central France for a week looking at their agriculture. The dairy farm is still vivid in my mind. None of us had ever seen such a filthy dairy. The pipes can’t have been cleaned for weeks and the filth around the bulk tank was frightening.
I’m sure things will have improved since those days but a reminder of how things can slip without any standards to keep.
They certainly have improved and the many small, uneconomic, one man farms have been bought up by larger farms and state of the art milking parlours installed ( with the aid of government grants).
Sadly these same farms are giving up due to the low returns for their milk.
The exception being a local organic farmer who seems to be expanding his milking herd.
It saddens me to ride past these empty cow sheds. There was something quite beautiful seeing all their heads poking through the bars eating their food.
Whilst the farmers get low prices for a litre of milk it ain't cheap in the supermarkets.