Navigator wrote:

.......If all of the UK-produced lamb, for example, is only sold in the UK then the price will likely collapse, especially if the supermarkets decide that they have the farmers over a barrel - which they will have, of course.

M3DPO wrote:

So why does the majority of lamb consumed in the UK come from NZ?
SUPERMARKETS ALREADY HAVE FARMERS OVER A BARREL!- who do you think supplies all the special offers, I can tell you and everyone else IT AIN’T THE SUPERMARKETS ITS THE PRODUCERS.
I know I used to be one!

al cope wrote:

For years I have been saying that there is too much stuff on supermaket shelves - do we really need 10 differenet brands of strawbeery jam, etc, etc.

M3DPO wrote:

Trailered Movements wrote:

............

Those with no knowledge of the trucking industry should not make comments that are total b******s, and serve only for your constant bashing of anything and everything you don't agree with.

Dave

If the above statement had been applied to the Brexit vote we would not be in the turmoil we have been in for the last 3 wasted years.

al cope wrote:

yes, but read my post again, these ques were there BEFORE the port shutting, and have been for a few weeks now. Is this just brexit red tape (more paperwork?)

Al

kajtzu wrote:

M3DPO wrote:

So why does the majority of lamb consumed in the UK come from NZ?
SUPERMARKETS ALREADY HAVE FARMERS OVER A BARREL!- who do you think supplies all the special offers, I can tell you and everyone else IT AIN’T THE SUPERMARKETS ITS THE PRODUCERS.
I know I used to be one!

It really depends. As you say, it can be the producers but also the supermarket chain or even the market itself that’s behind a campaign. Usually the product is sold as a loss leader if it’s the supermarket or the chain doing it. If it’s the producer they either have a lower marginal cost per unit or expect to make it up in volume.

Apropos NZ lamb, it’s what we also tend to have in stores here in Finland so perhaps someone(s) in Hobbitville have a nice cartel going.

Of course they are loss leaders but it’s the producers that suffer the loss not the SM. The producers don’t have any say in the matter far from it they are forced into it, what can you do with 5,000 dozen eggs a day when they say they are doing a special offer and want you to give them 15 eggs and they will pay you for 12? the producers are in a contract to only supply one brand of supermarket, there are always clauses in the contract that allows them to be abused by the buyer, like potatoes, parsnips being the correct shape or size, eggs are graded by the buyer not the seller, they can be down graded to suit the market demand, down grades are either used for liquid eggs or vegetables for animal feed, the grower gets 10% of the contract price.
They have killed the fresh milk market, bottled water costs more money per litre than milk!
A neighbour of mine had 20 hectares of lettuce rejected that he had grown under contract to one of the big supermarkets after the first lorry load had been delivered, they claimed they where the wrong size, he gave me a crate of them and to me they where perfect.

Farmer Chalk wrote:

Yes but you wouldn’t drive a truck on a one way mission only for it to be parked up beside the motorway for days on end and spend your Christmas Day parked on your own on the M20....

This is what we get for knee jerk u turns.....

For every action there is a consequence...our idiots still haven’t realised this....

It’s a shambles.

bigdave wrote:

Flights i understand - we should have done it back in March.

Cargo, freight etc totally different and an act of commercial sabotage by the French IMO.

Dont worry they will get theirs when we flood France with cheap food and fish!!!

Make smoke Mr Cripin. We'll show Johnny foreigner who rules the waves. Are those Spitfires overhead? Three cheers for the boys in blue

Then there is reality in trading with our largest market and the complexities involved across all businesses.

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Gorilla63 wrote:

This is Brussels and Macron shaking the big stick. They were waiting for an opportunity to make a statement.

Gorilla63 wrote:

This is Brussels and Macron shaking the big stick. They were waiting for an opportunity to make a statement.

They could have just waited till the end of the year eh ..but we would have capitulated by then no doubt

Johnson claimed 174 trucks stuck on the M20 when at the same time HE said it was 900 ..who shall we believe