- Super Dairy
- Milking is worse than a parent’s evening?
- Ruth’s been trying to get a milk contract
- Badger
- Wedding Dress
- Super Dairy
Super Dairy
Brian is round seeing David.
He tells him about his and Debbie’s plans for a Super Dairy.
David isn’t impressed.
[David] “Never get to see a blade of grass in their lives”
But, as NFU President, David has to put it to the local chapter and see what everyone else thinks. Regardless of his own opinion.
However – Brian also has a proposition for Brookfield.
He asks if Brookfield will grow feed for the Super Dairy.
Shocker!
Milking is worse than a parent’s evening?
According to David.
He reckons he drew the short straw by being left to do the milking as Ruth goes off to a parent’s evening.
Each to their own.
Ruth’s been trying to get a milk contract
So she and Pip won the argument about supplying direct. Though Ruth is finding it far from easy – she hasn’t as yet managed to get one on the phone.
Badger
Joe’s not convinced about badger vaccination (Ed and Oliver’s plan). He reckons they don’t even have a vaccination that works yet.
[Joe] “In my day badgers had a natural immunity”
Joe reckons that modern faming is to blame . That cows are:
[Joe] “stressed and pushed to get every last drop out of them”
Will does not concur.
[Will] “There’s too many TB and too many badgers”
So Will wants to cull. As does David.
But Brian reckons that vaccination is worth a try. Which would seem surprising, until he clarifies that he reckons a cull would be bad PR (that’s more like Brian).
Wedding Dress
It’s decision time for Nic.
While Will goes off down the pub, Clarrie comes round to look at wedding dresses.
Nic has already decided (with Will) that they’ll go to the Cape Verde Islands. Will’s been sent to the pub to look at hotels.
And she also finds her wedding dress online.
So all’s going to plan then.
Emma will be pleased …
Super Dairy
Back talking to Brian, David repeats what he said to Debbie – that though they may have 15,000 cows, Americans will have 30,000. So Americans will win in the ‘world market’. And all Brian will achieve is to push up local milk prices.
[David] “All I want is to be paid a sensible price for out milk. Which price, is already way down the bottom of the European league”
Brian reckons that’s because of infighting – that wee milk producers like David don’t show a united front.
And Brian asks David again to be a supplier for the Super Dairy.
It’s a long term contract at guaranteed prices. Which Brian is quite right in saying would make a big difference to Brookfield.
David says yes …
… to talking to Ruth about it.
Interesting.
Considering Ruth has been stressed about Brookfield’s lack of profitability – she might actually say yes.
Or, will their principles win through?
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