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‘I’m losing £1,800 a day’: the stark reality for Britain’s dairy farmers (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Man should switch to farming oats for milk instead.

[–] Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

[–] climbing_caker@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

Then stop producing milk and grow produce. There are plenty of plants that grow within the UK's climate. Use some land for solar power and use the rest for vertical farming plants, the UK should be more self-reliant when it comes to fruit/veg. Why go into debt for traumatising cows? https://youtu.be/GjU03hu5Uqk

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There is little that the government can do. The main buyers aren't paying enough for milk and the other buyers aren't able to buy enough volume. An option is subsidies, but we thenwe need to add that to the UK tax. Tax that's avoided by the biggest commercial buyers of milk........

[–] okwithmydecay@leminal.space 2 points 6 months ago

Unless there is a future need for all this milk, or an argument for food security, couldn't the government incentivize the farmers to grow different crops, or even rewild their farmlands?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Then why don't you have all the cows slaughtered and just leave the fields empty? There you go, perfect cost saving business solution.