I agree with this getting rid of foreign cheese etc as I my self am irish but the same goes here I would not want to see Brittish cheese in our shelves lol
I go to Ireland alot and I see loads of milk from Northern Ireland on the shelves and yougurts from the Britiain in ROI shops. I never hear or see any Irish farmers getting into a hissy fit over that.
I completely agree, back our farmers 100% As for red tractor they can naff off.. how much unstunned halal Islamic torture slaughter has a red tractor Label on it!.? Which is Being sold to the unsuspecting British pubic hidden away behind codes.. No farmer worth his salt would raise quality stock & happily allow some 3rd world barbarian put it in to a crush & slit its throat while it’s still alive I love meat as much as the next man,but there’s a right & wrong way to deal with slaughter! Well done to Lancashire county council in completely banning unstunned in their schools, let’s hope one day red tractor does the same in not using halal, they fail to realise that as people become more aware about halal, the British public would gladly back a label if they knew it was produced in a humane way.
Good to see the progress is being made and getting support from the general public. Hopefully now much needed changes will happen, and the government take British farmers seriously and that a change needs to happen! Another great video Richard!
My farm is struggling because of this. It's bad enough with milk prices going down that out milk isn't being used for British products. I'm glad you did this I support you guys doing this and I'm glad people are doing something about this. Good luck too you :)
Good video funky farmer, cannot believe some staff were unfamiliar with the red tractor! Got two more farms selling up in our locality, such a sad situation. Keep up the videos mate!
This supermarket chain is supporting the only thing that they are concerned with which is the bottom line and as long as a majority of the shopping public does not get up in arms they will continue sell merchandise that makes them the biggest profit.
good video once again, do you think you can catch any harvesting or is it too late as recently I saw a huge Class Lexion 770 TT harvesting near down our road
I must tell you a little story about supermarkets and British farmers. A friend farmed beetroot and his biggest customers were supermarkets, they continuously hammered him to lower prices as imports were cheaper. To try and gain some added value and keep solvent he installed a processing line, to prepare the beetroot in different ways and beat the imports. This was also hard to do as buyers then went to the exporters to gain leverage. The last straw was when they advised him the stores would be doing a two for one offer and that he would need to supply double. Which he thought was great until they told him payment would only be for half the order, so he was funding the 2 for 1 offer. He declined, sold the remaining crop as a loss, turned his farm into an industrial estates, sold land and bought houses to let, ran the business himself and gave tenants a discount on prepaid rental. His quality of life changed within 6 months, he know has time for his family, no more "just in time" collections. I go out of my way to shop locally here in Vietnam and the UK when I visit, but it's very difficult to buy Made in Great Britain. Just watch Dragons Den and the largest percentage of new products are either made overseas or the panel recommends it.
Richard if some of the cheeses are from Northern Ireland would you consider that a foreign cheese or a British cheese? I can’t believe that the deli manager of Tesco didn’t know what the red tractor was about. I was last in the UK in 2002 and I’m well aware of the red tractor campaign.
I suppose with the recent trade agreements being made between Europe and Canada is one of the reasons why you are seeing more CAnadan cheese there. We have the same thing here with cheeses being imported from other countries when we a ton of milk. I don't know the ins and outs of it all but it's good to see people standing up for what they believe in
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
It's a two way street and you are aware that Ireland is the UK's fourth biggest trade partner?? Also as I said before on the last video the majority of cheese you pulled from the shelve had NI/UK stamps that is in fact northern irish cheese and that is not irish . In fact our supermarkets are flooded with this "made with Irish milk" and it's not it's British milk, the parent company might be Irish but it's produced in the UK. In Ireland we have this mark on produce from Ireland to show shoppers the product is Irish www.bordbia.ie/consumer/qualityassurance/RetailAudit/pages/default.aspx Do ye have a similar system?
+AngryTech I guess in the heat of the moment it was hard to differentiate which cheese was which.. It could just as easily have been from any other country. The brand pilgrims choice is made from cheese from 4 different countries. The argument here is that while Britain is not self sufficient in dairy products we still import while farmers struggle to sell their milk.This wasn't an attack on the Irish, far from it as i appreciate that they are in the same boat. This was a protest against foreign cheese being on the shelves rather that british. Just last week a local cheese factory in Somerset announced it was closing with the loss of over 150 jobs and making it difficult for the farms supplying it to find another buyer for their milk. As you can imagine thats not gone down well when irish cheddar is being sold in uk supermarkets. I referred to it as cheap cheese as thats what it is, the imported cheese is being sold under the value range which is cheaper than the British farm assured cheese. This is the Britain farm assurance assurance.redtractor.org.uk/rtassurance/schemes.eb
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
Hi Guys Nice to see you trying to protect U.K farming. I was born in the U.K and came to Canada 15 years ago. if you live here you soon realize all the best products from your home country go someplace else or your not a market producer like the u.k is becoming, look at all the industry thats gone in my 41 years of life!. You get our good Canada cheese and the Americans get our good lumber. we seem to end up getting sailed down the river by many other countries here to, with crap imports of a lot of things, but the price to the end users not cheap for some of it, when you start looking at it. The big problem with most of what I see is some only care about purchase price and keeping $ or pounds in there pockets or share holder profits!. It's sad to see but farmings changing in many country's and not all of it's going to be good for us That want to farm. I got pigs here I raise for guys. I can't afford to own the animals and make money. They take the financial risk and pay me to provide the animal care / herd welfare. For me to farm thats the only way it's likely to work with animals. Good luck I hope it works out for you. Regards Robert
British or English I’m not quite sure which cheese? What about Northern Irish cheese? There is a lot of British products on Tesco shelves in Ireland. I guess that’s how economy works it’s a constant exchange of goods.
Yes your right. We weren't really trying to be negative about Irish farming but this was filmed at a time when milk prices had crashed and they were saying there was too much milk around. Very frustrating to see imported products on the shelf when there is a cheese factory not so far away
People saying Ireland have british milk or chees is fine and it's fine that we have their cheese it's the fact that tesco lied saying they where supporting british farmers when they aren't as much as they say
good on u I think if the shop is going to support British farming and products then they should actually do that instead of importing stuff from other country's. Well done to everyone who did the protest!!!
Thefunkyfarmer well to be fair it's the same with us in ireland if I go to my near by super market it's all British milk and cheese so it's the same here if ye want to stop it over there ye have to stop it over here the milk and cheese should within each country
I was with you on the milk, but I'm not sure about this..I find cheese is so expensive now that ive radically reduced buying it and only get whats on offer, same with the butter. I only have a co op to shop at tho and the prices are eye watering...cathedral chedder is £5.50 for a not very big pack and their cheapest butter is £1.48 last i checked. i just end up not buying it or getting it when they have one on offer. Dairy products have all gone up by crazy amounts over the last couple years. I'm not sure forcing the public to pay even more is going to help your cause...the exception being milk, where i think its underpriced and I would happily pay another 20p for the size i buy which is about 2l semi skimmed. I presume the supermarkets treat milk as a loss leader and its way at the back of the shop so u have to go thru the store.
+orju I understand what your saying. I don't think the issue is the price though. The point is that this range could be made from British milk rather than imported
I'm not sure of the ins and outs of all this, we run a beef farm but the neighbours are big milkers, but I don't see why removing all the Irish cheese and asking for it to be British helps, in my opinion a variety of cheeses foreign or British should be stocked but the suprer markets should pay the farmers more for the milk and not be soo money obsessed and all about profit
Richard i dont know if you'll agree with me but in my opinion i think that Irish farmers should provide their products to the Tesco across Ireland because there is no need to import it when they have British farmers doing the dairy work and that British products should be sold in England wales and Scotland then theirs no issues between anyone you know?
+Paddy Costello i think you are right. I don't think any British farmers has a problem with Irish Farmers, it's just the frustration at having Irish cheese on British shelves when there is so much British milk about
Ireland has very similar laws and restrictions to farming in England and the product is safe I wouldn't want to see products coming from South America being sold in Ireland or England but Ireland and England do a huge amount of trading with each other so ye are making too much of a fuss over it
we weren't really venting our anger at Irish farmers despite what it looks like. I have great respect for Irish farmers. What was frustrating was at the time of making this film British dairy farmers were taking a hammering with a very low milk price yet supermarkets like Tesco continued to show a lack of support for the home market.by importing cheese and other dairy products
Disgraceful that the Dairy/Poultry manager in that store didn't know what the Red Tractor farm assurance logo meant ignorance in Law is no defence, I have been trying to get Caerphilly Cheese for some time no supermarket sells it, it's the only British cheese I like, I wouldn't shop at Tesco's even if they paid me.😠
Tesco need to wake up and see that if a lot of people see this and are strong supporters of British farming then they will probably stop shopping there and go elsewhere and my grandparents don't mind paying a higher price and my granddad's uncle was a diary farmer in Devon where I live
we should be doing this with bread the way grain prices are 112 pounds a tone we cant make money of that! we are all sort of in the same boat I just wish people understood what it takes money wise to make milk or grow crops!
+Jamie_7530 yes you're right. There was no offence meant to Irish Framers in this video.Its just sickening that when it's claimed there is too much milk about that Tesco are bringing Irish cheese into England
The word "Tesco" offends me, there food leaves a bad taste in my mouth because they don't support the British farmers enough, AVOID THIS SHAMBLES OF A COMPANY
in my country they also do the same stupid thing of allowing importing food that we can produce ourselves, but i think protests will not work, whole political system needs to be revised, like for example why would politicians listen to you if they get bribed or how they call it lobbied all the time.
Why are you filming? Haha my uncle has gone out of business and has had to sell his farm. I also know at lease 17 other farms that have gone out of business. Them guys that came up to you in the cheese section😂
I know but I guess you have to have been through this bad time to understand. The milk price in the UK was on the floor yet imported cheddar was still being bought in. At this point there was a feeling that it should be replaced by English cheese to support to local producer. I'm sure if the tables were turned the same feeling would be felt in Ireland. It wasn't a personal attack against Irish farmers despite what it seems
thefunkyfarmer milk is worthless here. Doesn’t pay off. Neighbor does it. Cost 1000s a month electricity alone. Could hardly keep his tractor on finance. Had to hide from the bank. But I’m sure irish cheese is better than any other imported cheese on your shelves in my opinion. In all fairness it’s done to a high standard
Dear funky farmer I c your point I can understand your reasons behind this but Britain owns six countys in Ireland also farming is bad here but if you think u have problems now when Brexit happens I think it will be worse all the best like your videos
It's a sad state of affairs when its farmer against farmert. I have no doubt now that Irish produce is as good as British. It's just the market that is broken and needs sorting out. As much now as when I made this video. All the best
@@thefunkyfarmer Richard thanks for reply were u watching farmers in Ireland striking out side beef factories base price was agreed for six weeks now we r penalised anything over 420kilos you will only get paid for beef farmers making loss suckler farmers broke an now we r to blame for all the green house gases farming all my life an no light at the end of tunnel
@@jamesmcmullon551 yes. It's the same problem here. Beef price is on the floor. Like you said, farmers are getting blamed and penalized for everything now. Fed up with it
You know the farmers have arrived when you see a landrover pull up with an Iforwilliams trailer lol
9:32 when the guy says he dosent want to be filmed and Richard says " don't stand in front of the camera then" Good one Richard
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I agree with this getting rid of foreign cheese etc as I my self am irish but the same goes here I would not want to see Brittish cheese in our shelves lol
Seamus Magee im irish and i agree
Thx for the put irish farmers out of business
I go to Ireland alot and I see loads of milk from Northern Ireland on the shelves and yougurts from the Britiain in ROI shops.
I never hear or see any Irish farmers getting into a hissy fit over that.
Very true lads i am irish to
I agree and I'm Irish
How do you stand with British dairy products being sold in foreign supermarkets?
Back British farming, Nice bit of English cheddar.
Im from ireland the cheese is grand and not foreign
James Kent foreign means it from another country ireland is not england
When was ireland england
I completely agree, back our farmers 100%
As for red tractor they can naff off.. how much unstunned halal Islamic torture slaughter has a red tractor Label on it!.?
Which is Being sold to the unsuspecting British pubic hidden away behind codes..
No farmer worth his salt would raise quality stock & happily allow some 3rd world barbarian put it in to a crush & slit its throat while it’s still alive
I love meat as much as the next man,but there’s a right & wrong way to deal with slaughter!
Well done to Lancashire county council in completely banning unstunned in their schools, let’s hope one day red tractor does the same in not using halal, they fail to realise that as people become more aware about halal, the British public would gladly back a label if they knew it was produced in a humane way.
Are you still serving to morcourt Hilton and have you had any straw yet this year?
But in Ireland we have a lot of engilsh cheese tho
Good to see the progress is being made and getting support from the general public. Hopefully now much needed changes will happen, and the government take British farmers seriously and that a change needs to happen! Another great video Richard!
My farm is struggling because of this. It's bad enough with milk prices going down that out milk isn't being used for British products. I'm glad you did this I support you guys doing this and I'm glad people are doing something about this. Good luck too you :)
Why is this happening all over the Western World?
Good video funky farmer, cannot believe some staff were unfamiliar with the red tractor! Got two more farms selling up in our locality, such a sad situation. Keep up the videos mate!
I should try this over here in Birmingham
It's the same with irish cheese being imported milk and beef
thefunkyfarmer good job I'm a farmer in Canada and I 110% stand behind you guys
+farmboy6030 thanks.I hear things are bad over in Canada as well
+thefunkyfarmer yeah
Good job done keep up the hard work and dedication to put Mr supermarket in place, great video by the way
I am so glad you are now clear of TB will this mean you will be able to sell some stock now?
I support local farmers here in the U.S. keep up the good fight boys
I'm irish
This supermarket chain is supporting the only thing that they are concerned with which is the bottom line and as long as a majority of the shopping public does not get up in arms they will continue sell merchandise that makes them the biggest profit.
Will have to ask my brother as he selects the bulls we use. The the straw is all in the shed now
Glad to hear you have got the straw in, a lot of arable farmers round us haven't started harvest yet as the weather isn't really here.
good video once again, do you think you can catch any harvesting or is it too late as recently I saw a huge Class Lexion 770 TT harvesting near down our road
yea harvest is still going on our farm we are still going. we have claas lexion 550 tt
Nice love a good Claas
Don't forget you claim the 6 counties of Ireland still . So I suppose milk from Northern Ireland is not British or is it .
+mihughh I guess that would count as British, confusing isn't it
Yes we started selling last week
I must tell you a little story about supermarkets and British farmers.
A friend farmed beetroot and his biggest customers were supermarkets, they continuously hammered him to lower prices as imports were cheaper. To try and gain some added value and keep solvent he installed a processing line, to prepare the beetroot in different ways and beat the imports. This was also hard to do as buyers then went to the exporters to gain leverage. The last straw was when they advised him the stores would be doing a two for one offer and that he would need to supply double. Which he thought was great until they told him payment would only be for half the order, so he was funding the 2 for 1 offer. He declined, sold the remaining crop as a loss, turned his farm into an industrial estates, sold land and bought houses to let, ran the business himself and gave tenants a discount on prepaid rental. His quality of life changed within 6 months, he know has time for his family, no more "just in time" collections.
I go out of my way to shop locally here in Vietnam and the UK when I visit, but it's very difficult to buy Made in Great Britain. Just watch Dragons Den and the largest percentage of new products are either made overseas or the panel recommends it.
What's wrong with Ireland?
1:56 i thought for a second that was u richard 😂😂
It can still be British milk Irish milk companies buy Northern Ireland’s milk so they probably aren’t lying
Hi William. CZcams won't let me reply to directly. Just to let you know we went to clear in august for the first time since November
Did you find out from your brother what Friesian bull your serving to now?
Simple reason is Irish is better!
Which tesco did you go to?
+Mr Farmer 875 yate
what's wrong with our milk?
2 true
Crap.
You pissed in it
Use ur milk for your country not ours
Shut up we always see British yogurt on our shelves in Ireland
Richard if some of the cheeses are from Northern Ireland would you consider that a foreign cheese or a British cheese?
I can’t believe that the deli manager of Tesco didn’t know what the red tractor was about. I was last in the UK in 2002 and I’m well aware of the red tractor campaign.
rich quick question .. What do ye do with all the foreign cheese?
+Conal Moore Some employee put it back on the shelf. In the end they were just a mild nuisance.
+awd3264 well it was mild cheese
When are you harvesting the maize?
+Johnthegolferboy not for a month or so
Security Guard - "Why are you filming may I ask?"
Rich - "Well, you're a very attractive gentleman"
xD I found this way too funny!
I suppose with the recent trade agreements being made between Europe and Canada is one of the reasons why you are seeing more CAnadan cheese there.
We have the same thing here with cheeses being imported from other countries when we a ton of milk.
I don't know the ins and outs of it all but it's good to see people standing up for what they believe in
i haven't shopped at tesco for years, only shop at aldi these days
What's the difference between cultivating and horrowing?
+William Radley harrowing is a type of cultivation. Cultivating just refers to all the different techniques used in making a seed bed
Cheers
What about the POOR BEEF farmer ha???
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
As farmers I think it good people are fighting back!
It's a two way street and you are aware that Ireland is the UK's fourth biggest trade partner??
Also as I said before on the last video the majority of cheese you pulled from the shelve had NI/UK stamps that is in fact northern irish cheese and that is not irish . In fact our supermarkets are flooded with this "made with Irish milk" and it's not it's British milk, the parent company might be Irish but it's produced in the UK.
In Ireland we have this mark on produce from Ireland to show shoppers the product is Irish www.bordbia.ie/consumer/qualityassurance/RetailAudit/pages/default.aspx Do ye have a similar system?
+AngryTech I guess in the heat of the moment it was hard to differentiate which cheese was which.. It could just as easily have been from any other country. The brand pilgrims choice is made from cheese from 4 different countries. The argument here is that while Britain is not self sufficient in dairy products we still import while farmers struggle to sell their milk.This wasn't an attack on the Irish, far from it as i appreciate that they are in the same boat. This was a protest against foreign cheese being on the shelves rather that british. Just last week a local cheese factory in Somerset announced it was closing with the loss of over 150 jobs and making it difficult for the farms supplying it to find another buyer for their milk. As you can imagine thats not gone down well when irish cheddar is being sold in uk supermarkets. I referred to it as cheap cheese as thats what it is, the imported cheese is being sold under the value range which is cheaper than the British farm assured cheese.
This is the Britain farm assurance
assurance.redtractor.org.uk/rtassurance/schemes.eb
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
+thefunkyfarmer my uncle is a pig farmer and the same thing is happening to us over in northern Ireland they are importing foran pork and the price are very low at the minute aswell we are getting £30 less than we were last year for are meat but we aren't staging protest but I believe we should just like you dairy farmers are doing to be herd and to show the supermarkets what they are doing to us farmers. if you read this thanks enjoying the videos keep it up
thefunkyfarmer I'm sorry but if you can't compete with the foreign market you're doing something wrong
We have this trouble all the time our farmers can keep going like this wether it honey fish or our milk good on you fellas
Hi Guys Nice to see you trying to protect U.K farming. I was born in the U.K and came to Canada 15 years ago. if you live here you soon realize all the best products from your home country go someplace else or your not a market producer like the u.k is becoming, look at all the industry thats gone in my 41 years of life!. You get our good Canada cheese and the Americans get our good lumber. we seem to end up getting sailed down the river by many other countries here to, with crap imports of a lot of things, but the price to the end users not cheap for some of it, when you start looking at it.
The big problem with most of what I see is some only care about purchase price and keeping $ or pounds in there pockets or share holder profits!. It's sad to see but farmings changing in many country's and not all of it's going to be good for us That want to farm. I got pigs here I raise for guys. I can't afford to own the animals and make money. They take the financial risk and pay me to provide the animal care / herd welfare. For me to farm thats the only way it's likely to work with animals.
Good luck I hope it works out for you. Regards Robert
i am an Irish farmer and our cheese is British
Irish milk is better though😂
We are going to start using a different bull soon William. Haven't decidd which one yet
+thefunkyfarmer what do you do with the cheese after you take it off the self
+THE HIVE they took it back
+thefunkyfarmer I bet the man who kept on asking you to turn the camera off, is camera shy. ;-)
I live in Ireland
What are your pc specs funky farmer
+Ben Wilson no idea
+thefunkyfarmer is it a laptop
+Ben Wilson Yes a hp one, nothing special
Ben Wilson funkyfarmer plays farming simulator? Oh no...
tesco disgust me that they import cheese.
LawnTractorBoy p
so so true
Good on you lot
British or English I’m not quite sure which cheese? What about Northern Irish cheese? There is a lot of British products on Tesco shelves in Ireland. I guess that’s how economy works it’s a constant exchange of goods.
Yes your right. We weren't really trying to be negative about Irish farming but this was filmed at a time when milk prices had crashed and they were saying there was too much milk around. Very frustrating to see imported products on the shelf when there is a cheese factory not so far away
oh right did ye have you're negotiations Richard....if so how did they go?
+Conal Moore still on going i think, I'm not part of that
WHAT THE HACK IS THIS
Good on ya lad
hiya Richard. i agree with you about getting rid of the supermarket cheese it really is not good lying about your products.
I am 1000 percent behind you but i would laugh my heart out if you had to buy it all or put it all back
I agree
People saying Ireland have british milk or chees is fine and it's fine that we have their cheese it's the fact that tesco lied saying they where supporting british farmers when they aren't as much as they say
Good on ya
Sorry I'm from Ireland not backing what ye are doing 😢😢😢🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
what is rong with our milk
Didn't you already upload this :p?
+7930james yes but i took the first upload down as it needed a bit of editing
Ah right, I guess I got in there sneeky and watched the unedited bit, How's the hols going? or are you back now.
good video when on holiday did you have a good one
+Pauric Flood not bad, lots of rain though
good on u I think if the shop is going to support British farming and products then they should actually do that instead of importing stuff from other country's. Well done to everyone who did the protest!!!
Thefunkyfarmer well to be fair it's the same with us in ireland if I go to my near by super market it's all British milk and cheese so it's the same here if ye want to stop it over there ye have to stop it over here the milk and cheese should within each country
it would seem logical to do that
I was with you on the milk, but I'm not sure about this..I find cheese is so expensive now that ive radically reduced buying it and only get whats on offer, same with the butter. I only have a co op to shop at tho and the prices are eye watering...cathedral chedder is £5.50 for a not very big pack and their cheapest butter is £1.48 last i checked. i just end up not buying it or getting it when they have one on offer. Dairy products have all gone up by crazy amounts over the last couple years. I'm not sure forcing the public to pay even more is going to help your cause...the exception being milk, where i think its underpriced and I would happily pay another 20p for the size i buy which is about 2l semi skimmed. I presume the supermarkets treat milk as a loss leader and its way at the back of the shop so u have to go thru the store.
+orju I understand what your saying. I don't think the issue is the price though. The point is that this range could be made from British milk rather than imported
You tell them
I agree with them. ..
I'm not sure of the ins and outs of all this, we run a beef farm but the neighbours are big milkers, but I don't see why removing all the Irish cheese and asking for it to be British helps, in my opinion a variety of cheeses foreign or British should be stocked but the suprer markets should pay the farmers more for the milk and not be soo money obsessed and all about profit
are you back from holiday yet?
+Jamie Jardine yes jamie
Go on Ireland
Richard i dont know if you'll agree with me but in my opinion i think that Irish farmers should provide their products to the Tesco across Ireland because there is no need to import it when they have British farmers doing the dairy work and that British products should be sold in England wales and Scotland then theirs no issues between anyone you know?
+Paddy Costello i think you are right. I don't think any British farmers has a problem with Irish Farmers, it's just the frustration at having Irish cheese on British shelves when there is so much British milk about
yeah i understand richard
Ireland has very similar laws and restrictions to farming in England and the product is safe I wouldn't want to see products coming from South America being sold in Ireland or England but Ireland and England do a huge amount of trading with each other so ye are making too much of a fuss over it
we weren't really venting our anger at Irish farmers despite what it looks like. I have great respect for Irish farmers.
What was frustrating was at the time of making this film British dairy farmers were taking a hammering with a very low milk price yet supermarkets like Tesco continued to show a lack of support for the home market.by importing cheese and other dairy products
GOOD!!! i always support our farmers and I always buy of my local farm sod tescos.
Disgraceful that the Dairy/Poultry manager in that store didn't know what the Red Tractor farm assurance logo meant ignorance in Law is no defence, I have been trying to get Caerphilly Cheese for some time no supermarket sells it, it's the only British cheese I like, I wouldn't shop at Tesco's even if they paid me.😠
Tesco need to wake up and see that if a lot of people see this and are strong supporters of British farming then they will probably stop shopping there and go elsewhere and my grandparents don't mind paying a higher price and my granddad's uncle was a diary farmer in Devon where I live
Good
we should be doing this with bread the way grain prices are 112 pounds a tone we cant make money of that! we are all sort of in the same boat I just wish people understood what it takes money wise to make milk or grow crops!
yep well said
I'm from Ireland but I don't get wh tescos are using a different country's milk because the company is made in England it's really stupid
+Jamie_7530 yes you're right. There was no offence meant to Irish Framers in this video.Its just sickening that when it's claimed there is too much milk about that Tesco are bringing Irish cheese into England
We are dairy farmers and this is not on
Nice
#Farmers unite
hi where do live in the world
+farmer pro 387 Gloucestershire, england
Thank you
You sood tray farming sim 15
+farmer pro 387 ha don't need a sim I've got the real thing to play with
+thefunkyfarmer haha
In Ireland the cheese irish
All the cheap cheese in ireland is produced in england
I think those farmers are right, but blimey, some tesco managers are hot
The word "Tesco" offends me, there food leaves a bad taste in my mouth because they don't support the British farmers enough, AVOID THIS SHAMBLES OF A COMPANY
in my country they also do the same stupid thing of allowing importing food that we can produce ourselves, but i think protests will not work, whole political system needs to be revised, like for example why would politicians listen to you if they get bribed or how they call it lobbied all the time.
+beeqool which country are you in? These protests have worked here in the uk and SOME but not all things have changed as a result
+thefunkyfarmer latvia.
Why are you filming? Haha my uncle has gone out of business and has had to sell his farm. I also know at lease 17 other farms that have gone out of business. Them guys that came up to you in the cheese section😂
But if it was northern Irish milk would it make a difference. Such pricking around
Farmers under pressure don't always think rationally
thefunkyfarmer I like videos and that. But calling our milk foreign and terrible is just not a good scene for yourself
I know but I guess you have to have been through this bad time to understand. The milk price in the UK was on the floor yet imported cheddar was still being bought in. At this point there was a feeling that it should be replaced by English cheese to support to local producer. I'm sure if the tables were turned the same feeling would be felt in Ireland.
It wasn't a personal attack against Irish farmers despite what it seems
thefunkyfarmer milk is worthless here. Doesn’t pay off. Neighbor does it. Cost 1000s a month electricity alone. Could hardly keep his tractor on finance. Had to hide from the bank. But I’m sure irish cheese is better than any other imported cheese on your shelves in my opinion. In all fairness it’s done to a high standard
typical Tesco
Good on ya lads :) well done and said
here what about us the sheep and beef farmers we are on the sames boat as u and every body seems to be more worried about the milk
+case cs94 newholland8260 fare comment, time to rally the troops......
thefunkyfarmer well i have to get to work
I am Irish
Dear funky farmer I c your point I can understand your reasons behind this but Britain owns six countys in Ireland also farming is bad here but if you think u have problems now when Brexit happens I think it will be worse all the best like your videos
It's a sad state of affairs when its farmer against farmert. I have no doubt now that Irish produce is as good as British. It's just the market that is broken and needs sorting out. As much now as when I made this video. All the best
@@thefunkyfarmer Richard thanks for reply were u watching farmers in Ireland striking out side beef factories base price was agreed for six weeks now we r penalised anything over 420kilos you will only get paid for beef farmers making loss suckler farmers broke an now we r to blame for all the green house gases farming all my life an no light at the end of tunnel
@@jamesmcmullon551 yes. It's the same problem here. Beef price is on the floor.
Like you said, farmers are getting blamed and penalized for everything now. Fed up with it
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