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Onwettige BLF besetters skoert uit Brooklyn huis na ’n stryd van 9maande – BLF nie ingetrek om te bly maar om te verwoes, skade beraam op ’n halfmiljoen rand Melkboere moet R3,64 per liter kry
• Nuus • Melkboere moet R3,64 per liter kry
’n Melkboer moet minstens R3,64 per liter melk verdien om volhoubaar vooruit te kan boer, reken ’n kenner.
’n Melkboer moet minstens R3,64 per liter melk verdien om volhoubaar te boer. Dít is ’n kenner se slotsom van ’n billike prys nadat talle melkkopers en -verwerkers hul kooppryse die afgelope maand verminder het. Die kopers se stap het Landbouweekblad laat besluit om die kenner te nader om uit te vind wat ’n “billike” melkprys sou wees. Weens moontlike vervolging deur Mededingingsowerhede het die bron versoek om anoniem te bly. Hy het somme gemaak met die aanname dat ’n billike, oftewel regverdige prys gesien word as ’n prys wat ’n boer se oorhoofse koste dek, ’n salaris aan die eienaar en/of bestuurder betaal en vir die eienaar ’n skrale opbrengs op kapitaal bied. Dié berekeninge maak nie voorsiening vir veranderlikes, soos siektes, voerprysverhogings, kuddevervanging en diefstal, nie. Twee verskillende kuddegroottes (293 koeie en 484 koeie) is in die berekening gebruik. Met albei somme is aanvaar dat die belegging R35 000 per koei is. Rente op kapitaal is bereken op 0,055%. In die geval van 293 beeste is ’n maandelikse salaris van R35 000 aan die eienaar of stalbestuurder bereken. Die produksiekoste per liter melk is in die omgewing van R3,30 en daar is aanvaar dat elke koei daagliks 20 liter produseer. Die jaarlikse produksiekoste sal dan R7 058 370 wees en die rente op belegging R564 025. Wanneer die eienaar of bestuurder se salaris van R420 000 in berekening gebring word, is die som R3,76 per liter. Indien 484 koeie gemelk word om 18 liter melk per koei per dag te produseer, met ’n produksiekoste van R3,10 per liter en ’n bestuursalaris van R40 000, sal die skaalekonomie wel in die boer se guns tel. Só ’n kudde se jaarlikse produksiekoste sal R5 967 531 wees. Die rente op belegging sal weer R564 025 wees. As die bestuurder en/of eienaar jaarlikse R480 000 verdien, beteken dit die totale koste per liter sal R3,64 wees. • Die weergee van historiese inligting is nie onwettig ingevolge die Wet op Mededinging (Wet 89 van 1998) nie. Samespanning ten opsigte van toekomstige pryse is wel onwettig. Landbouweekblad wil dit duidelik stel dat die berekeninge in die berig bloot ’n bespiegeling is en nie as maatstaf vir prysonderhandelinge kan dien nie.
2012/07/11 04:35:06 PM
Dit mag 'n bespiegeling wees, maar doen nog nie afbreek aan die feit dat sekere aankopers produsente poog bedrieg deur hulle te beinvloed om melk teen belagrike pryse te probeer produseer en die res van die ketting dan met vetkat vergoeding vir hul bestuur en belaglike winste vir hul maatskappye mee wegstap nie - dis cashcowing in growwe formaat
2012/07/12 10:04:55 AM
Ek stel weer voor dat alle boere die MPO dwing om as rolspeler soortgelyk aan 'n melkraad en ook vakbond toe te tree. waar alle produkte aan 'n melkraad "gelewer" vir verspreiding en dat onderhandelings oor die prys van melk deur die melkraad geskied in opdrag van sy lede se mandaat.
indien die plaaslike aankopers dan onwillig is om 'n gepaste prys te betaal is die melkraad gerat om die produk na ander ontluikende afrika lande te neem. Kom nou dis nie rocket science nie.
2012/07/12 10:51:31 AM
Volgens die MPO se webwerf fokus hulle op vyf strategiese kernfunksies:
Markbeskerming en -ontwikkeling
Beskerming van ledebelange.
Met die huidige probleme (verlaging in produsente pryse) in die melkbedryf is 4 van die vyf tersprake maar hulle laaste nuusbrief op hulle webwerf is gedateer 15 Junie. In die nuusbrief word wel aangekondig dat hulle hulle ledegeld verhoog. Wat het hulle die afgelope paar weke gedoen om produsente by te staan? En indien hulle wel iets gedoen het hoekom laat weet hulle nie wat dit is nie? Hoe maak mens besluite sonder inligting?
2012/07/12 08:41:31 PM
Wonder net hoeveel boere melk 484 koeie en wat is die gemiddelde kudde groottes.Indien dit wel 484 koeie is dan voorspel ek nog meer melk wat geproduseer word met nog laer pryse en so loop die bose kringloop.Ons word met ons eie produk gebrand en niemand knip n oog nie.
2012/07/12 09:20:13 PM
2012/07/12 09:26:35 PM
Competition law is not of general application. Specifically excluded is the supply of labour (s3). In other words labour can and does violate all the principles of competition. It is interesting to note that there appears to be a worldwide trend for government labour costs to be well in excess of private sector labour costs and that these are the main drivers of government deficits. In both SA and USA it is estimated that the average labour cost of the public sector is 45 per cent higher than the private sector.
2012/07/12 09:29:18 PM
“A strange procedure of punishment has evolved from the Competition Commission (the investigative arm) of convincing the accused to enter into a so-called consent agreement to admit guilt and pay an enormous fine, in some cases in excess of R1bn. This method of extortion is well-known in history. Under the Spanish Inquisition, the accused could either plead guilty and hand over all of his property or protest his innocence and be tortured until he confessed and handed over all of his property before being burnt alive at the stake. Most chose the first option and today many executives settle by handing over billions of rand of shareholders’ property.” (SA's competition policy is not constitutional by Robert Vivian) Kuyvenhoven
2012/07/12 09:34:24 PM
“In South Africa it is not the price of bread (milk) which is the problem; it is the cost of government controlled monopolies and costs imposed by government institutions. These include the cost of electricity which is escalating beyond what many will be able to afford, and in many cases now exceeds the cost of accommodation. The cost of municipal services that provide questionable value for money, which has long exceeded what most pensioners can afford; private firms having to compete with loss making government institutions propped up with taxpayers funds”. Kuyvenhoven
2012/07/13 09:49:10 AM
De boeren denken nogsteets het probleem le bij de prive-sector, maakt uw oog open.
2012/07/13 11:43:33 AM
As dit so maklik is om die produsent se prys te bereken ,wat sal die prys van melk dan wees aan die verbruiker,miskien sal dit lig op die onderwerp laat.Kuyvenhoven ons weet lankal dat ons nie welkom is in hierdie land nie,maar ongelukkig moet hulle eet en nou probeer hulle ons produkte op n onregverdige prys in die hande kry.Die son skyn immers oor almal leef en laat leef.
2012/07/13 12:26:03 PM
JACO- Just as consumer welfare is tied to the efficiency of the farm sector, the welfare of South African farmers is indirectly yet intimately tied to the efficiency of South Africa's distribution and processing system. Low productivity in food production is widely recognized as a major deterrent to development, but low productivity in marketing is also a deterrent. National country efforts to improve marketing efficiency and accessibility as a way to reduce the margin between farm gate prices and retail prices will be a critical prerequisite for the continued viability of the South African farmer under a less regulated regional trading environment. It is important for development plans to include strategies to effectively promote improvements in the marketing system. First, however, it is necessary to recognize that marketing firms provide an economically and socially valuable service. Kuyvenhoven
2012/07/13 01:40:23 PM
JACO- Everyone is a consumer. Approximately 40 to 50 percent of what the consumer spend on food goes for MARKETING SERVICES alone. It is very important to note that the prices paid for the services of marketing agencies, i.e., marketing margins, are determined by conditions only partly tied to conditions affecting the price level for the commodity. Commodity prices at the consumer, or retail, level are determined by the consumer demand for and the supply of the commodity. Firms engaged in marketing farm products cannot control what farmers bring to market, and hence cannot control the retail prices of these products. They do, however, control the marketing services rendered and hence exercise control over the prices paid for these services, i.e., over marketing margins. Kuyvenhoven
2012/07/13 01:47:51 PM
2012/07/13 02:24:17 PM
Die MPO is n organisaie sonder tande . Kom hy vir sy lede op ? Tweedens het die "kenner" die aanteel in berekening gebring ? Die melkboer se geld le' ook in sy aanteel(aanwas) .
2012/07/13 02:26:18 PM
Is is my regte naam ! John Cronje' butch
2012/07/15 08:50:37 PM
Kuyvenhoven - jou uitgangspunt is interessant en werp 'n ander lig op hierdie probleem waarmee produsente stry en kan 'n interessante bydrae tot dit maak -"De boeren denken nogsteets het probleem le bij de prive-sector, maakt uw oog open". maar dan sal het uwe moet spreken, anders sal de boere se oge niet open. Maak asb 'n bydrae en sit die feite op die tafel . Hierdie gaan oor produsente se oorlewing. Ek stem volkome saam met robert vivian se standpunt dat ons "competions policy" na alle waarskynlikheid hoogs ongrondwetlik is en op 'Bullying" neerkom en begryp ook nie waarom dit nie aan die grondwethof voorgele word nie
2012/07/16 09:13:29 AM
BUTCH-In diagnosis of problems and design of solutions, the key is to seek out and identify areas where markets do not perform well, and to suggest workable solutions. Cooperative marketing however, has played a prominent part in the history of efforts to improve agricultural marketing. Many thousands of cooperative associations and thousands of farmer members have blazed the cooperative trail to better marketing or another trail to failure and disappointment. Many farmers who form or join cooperatives, however, expect much greater reductions in marketing costs than can be achieved by such means. With vague notions about “enormous wasts” in marketing, they believe that all that is necessary in order greatly to reduce marketing charges is to eliminate the middleman, by marketing through a cooperative. However, the middleman is not “eliminated” but merely replaced by the cooperative, which automatically assumes responsibility for all or most of the services and costs of the private agency. Moreover, the cooperative seldom carries the product more than one or two steps from producer to consumer and usually does not replace the retailers and wholesalers in the consuming markets, who account for most of the total marketing charge. It is quite unreasonable and futile, therefore, to expect cooperatives to reduce substantially the price spread between the producer and the consumer or to be able largely to increase returns to members as a result of reductions in marketing costs. Wouda Wessels
2012/07/16 05:35:17 PM
Ek stem 100% saam met GW RAAD!!! Kan die MPO nie die prys vasstel nie....
2012/07/17 04:21:21 PM
WOUDA WESSELS-The apparent ability of manufacturers and merchants to "fix prices" for their products, based at least partly on cost plus profit, is partly real and partly imaginary. It is one thing to set a price and quite another to sell a sufficient quantity at that price to make a profit.
The manufacturer is able to control his price, not because he controls the marketing machinery, but because he controls the supply. The automobile manufacturers' control over the selling price of their cars arises primarily from their control over automobile production, not their control over marketing. Similarly, ever if the milk industry were able to gain control over the marketing, not of 85 per cent of the crop, but the entire output, they could not control the price for any length of time unless they could compel farmers to adjust output to the quantity which consumers would take at the set price. Nobody has been able to suggest any way of achieving such control of agricultural production. Industrial producers, in contrast, are able to effect a considerable degree of control over the output of most goods, both of individual producers and of the industry as a whole.
2012/07/19 10:34:59 AM
Ongelukkig mag die MPO nie enigsins by prysvorming betrokke wees nie, omdat dit teen die wet is.
Staatsinmenging is die enigste manier wat pryse weer op 'n wettige manier vasgestel sal word. MAAR - ek hoef seker nie vir jou te se dat 'n "wettige vasgestelde prys" nie gelykstaande aan 'n "billike plaashekprys" is nie.
2012/07/22 12:58:57 PM
BUTCH-The marketing system cannot be held largely responsible for the wide swings in farm prices which accompany fluctuations of the business cycle and the price level or changes in supplies of farm products. Many, even most, of the specific criticisms which have been directed at marketing by farmers and consumers in the past are partly or wholly unjustified. Nevertheless, there is a hard core of true in the general belief that marketing as a process is relatively inefficient and wasteful as compared with production. Even in farming, where less use has been made of large-scale operations, great strides have been made in improving the efficiency of production in recent decades, through improved plant and animal breeding and soil-building techniques and a greater use of farm machinery. Improvements in the marketing of farm products, however, have not kept pace with these developments. So far, agricultural marketing reforms have replaced often unreliable, high-cost, and centralized forms of state marketing with more open markets that may be competitive but often lacking in information, infrastructure, and are poorly integrated with other key activities. Furthermore, low-cost marketing system are characterized primarily by a high degree of coordination between marketing stages rather than by isolated strengths in any one stage. Naam