No veto without peasant.
A few days ago, arriving at the clinic, we found this on our front.
NO VETO
FARMER FREE
SLOWLY ON BILLS
We are fully aware of the seriousness of the problem, and solidarity your claims.
What do the vetoes in Rostrenen to help their farmers? They are not a wait or inactive.
We have made great efforts since the crisis 2009 on drug prices, and it's not for nothing that farms that were supplied to far long back to provide home.
Beyond this drug selling business, we also looked for what we needed to do to be able continue to exercise our real job : work on farms ...
With as main issue :
What role can the vet in the profitability of dairy farms?
This analysis is based on the study Institute of Livestock " technical and economic benchmarks of corn-grass farm " in 2012.
Firstly it is clear that if the milk is not paid, all efforts in breeding quickly become hopeless.
Currently, the French system holds the vise by breeders 3 main ways :
- the price pressure exerted by supermarkets
- the profitability requirement to short-term financial groups which buy milk from farms
- standards, very restrictive.
As long as nothing is done to change that, any improvement in profitability of farming will be captured and thus we return to the same point for the breeder.
The vet can not much to this fact. This fight is over labor and policy that technical.
On the other hand :
- first observation
veterinary fees are 5 to 14 euros 1000 liters following farms, either 9 euros on average
- second observation
food costs represent 210 euros by 1000 liters (crop crop storage-buying-mechanization (operation, loans, interview)-employee work-work by the company)
- third observation
Unlike gross margin between two farms may represent up 80 euros the 1000 liters
- And finally, selling milk represents 88% the money returned the milk shop
Conclusion : the post “feed efficiency” (= Quantity of milk sold per kg of dry matter distributed) represent by far the largest share of the economic result for the milk shop.
So on this we think we can help our farmers to make efficiency savings.
This is why our vet clinic offers Service improvement and monitoring of raw milk margin workshop, based on 2 years of development of our global tracking method.
From our studies and experience, it seems that:
- In Central Brittany, without investing, a farm 50 or 100 cows may have a production cost (to the 1000 liters) less than a well-managed farm 500 cows.
- In Central Brittany, without investing, working on feed efficiency and food costs, all farms are above the upper current quarter.
- All this is going in the same direction: cows in better health (less veterinary expenses), less unnecessary reforms, less use of drugs (less veterinary expenses), a milk best quality for consumers, lesser environmental impact, job more serene for farmers.
The clinic launched 2015 a cycle of 4 information meetings in its area of activity :
The milk shop : veterinary approach
the first meeting was held in the Plouguernevel 24 November 2015 with 20 present on farms 40 guests.
-the second will be held in Locarn Thursday 25 February 2016
-the third will be held on Paule sector
-the fourth will be held on the area of Silfiac
here.
We did not wait for the crisis, anger (understandable) breeders, neither these tags, to ask questions and put in place measures, and services, could help our farmers (the extent of our possibilities).
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