Rabobank warns of oversupply milk

I thought the dairy was responsible for the marketing of our milk. That is always the added value they claim to deliver.
As farmers we are stimulated to supply a constant and predictable flow of high-quality product (that is the added value that the farmer provides) and now sales are stalling at our buyer and now they are dumping the costs back on the farmer.

Yes, we all want to export so much, we export 70-75% of the milk or pork. We falsely tell ourselves that we are rocket scientists because we make a product that no one else can. While the knowledge and skills are easier to export than the product itself. We are stupid enough to fill in the production of a discontinuing company as soon as possible.

You see it in dairy farming, as dairy farmers we laughed at those 'stupid' intensive farmers, with high manure disposal costs and low prices for the product. Now we are in the same boat. Dairy farmers who have to compete with pig farmers for the sale of manure and who have to pay a heavy price for the sale of manure. The dairy is fine with it, a cheap supply of milk in abundance.

For each new vision of the future, the dairy comes with the phrase; "The number of companies is shrinking but production remains the same". As long as this continues we won't earn anything. The economies of scale of economies of scale outweigh the economies of scale. And then I see people talking about limiting production in a European context. I think Europe will then come to the conclusion: let the countries with the highest degree of self-sufficiency and the highest 'pressure on the environment and environment' limit production. We are also a bit childish, when we profit from the export through sky-high prices, milk powder for China or swine fever in China, 'then it will never be bad again' and now that we experience the disadvantages, we as a collective (within Europe) have to go less produce.

We are rushed by the account managers and advisors of the associated companies to keep the total livestock/production level so that they can keep their jobs, while this is against the natural workings of the 'pig' cycle. The related companies know that in the event of calamities the farmer bears the costs, the risk for the entire chain lies with the farmer.