Yenn Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 I see Coles have a new advert.. Curtis Stone says we haven't changed the quality. What he should say next is "We have just screwed the farmers" They are advertising a big drop in chook prices. They started with the $1 milk and look where that has led. Farmers are walking off, Yesterday we saw a full dairy herd sent to the abbatoir, because the farmer was getting less for the milk than he was paying for cattle feed. They gave the numbers for the darling Downs and the number of dairy farmers has decreased vastly. It will not be long before we have to import milk to supply the demand and you know what the prices will be then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 ". It will not be long before we have to import milk to supply the demand " Aren't Powdered milk products Imported. Simple to dehydrate, Light weight, for transport, & cheap to source oversea's. Just add Australian H2O. There fresh milk !. LoL AND there was a mountain of Butter, to get rid of a couple of decades ago. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmick Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Viplus Dairy Sth Gipsland doing very well. Makes 40,000 bags powdered milk and 30,000 tins Baby Formula per DAY, most going to China. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-26/flooding-rains-infant-milk-demand-buoy-regional-dairy-industry/11549534 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 There, you see, it's a problem for the Australian battler. If those cows become Beef !. Viplus Dairy will Have to get their milk product oversea's, Cheaper than Australian made milk, & no processing cost, spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Same with apples, families gone and just a few big producers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Producer's, OR importers. Our fruit took a big quality dive, this tear. I suspect it was picked before ripening & "Gassed" to make it look good. Tart strawberries. sour oranges, & apples with brown centres. more to look forward too in the future. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 Our fruit took a big quality cut years ago. When did you taste a good strawberry, or a pear, and bananas are rubbish. they are either picked far too early or have been bred to travel without damage and forget the flavour. The way the drought is going we may have to import water to liquify the powered milk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Fortunately the powdered milk is actually a export success. Why.....the Chinese do not trust their milk products over chemical poison scares. So for a lucky few its big profits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmick Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 When you travel through Asia you notice very few milk products in the supermarkets and 7 elevens, they really don't have much of a dairy industry. New Zealand and Australian powdered milk are very sought after. If you want to take a gift to a friend in Asia, take them some high quality Aussie powdered Milk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 "When did you taste a good strawberry" Tasmania They'r gorgeous. Best fruit is always, OFF the TREE. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 We have a lovely strawberry tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 We have a lovely strawberry tree. Wonders of genetic engineering! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 I thought Rhubarb grew on trees. The elephant is a graceful bird It flits from bough to bough It builds its nest in Rhubarb tree and whistles like a cow. Old family rhyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Never waked down a road & picked blackberries/Raspberries for FREE. Never scrumped apples. You Have missed out, on the best tasting fruit, you can get. Just like fishing. Best tasting fish is cooked at the beach !. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Only if you don't get sand in the fillets. I made that mistake once. We have some lovely raspberry canes here, just waiting for summer to set in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 It's unfortunate that the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) will stop any attempt to import spaghetti trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Marty, "just waiting for summer to set in. " You must have missed it. Summer was last Tuesday. It was 28 degrees all day . Just before the grey cold drizzle set in....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 How right Spacesailer but those fruit you scrumped were not bought in Coles. The big food stores can't afford to have fruit properly ripened, because if they did some would get wasted, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Marty, "just waiting for summer to set in. " You must have missed it. Summer was last Tuesday. It was 28 degrees all day . Just before the grey cold drizzle set in....... Nobody told our raspberries!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 But whats the point of "selling" Product, If it's unfit for the consumer, Not just Coles but my supermarket "Aldi". Bag of oranges returned & no questions asked, They knew it was no good for it's purpose. but sold sell it. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 But whats the point of "selling" Product, If it's unfit for the consumer, Not just Coles but my supermarket "Aldi". Bag of oranges returned & no questions asked, They knew it was no good for it's purpose. but sold sell it. spacesailor Because the other 99 people didn't bring it back, just either ate the tasteless oranges or threw them out, either way the supermarket makes its money. I refuse to buy meat, fruit or veg from Coles/Woolies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methusala Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Don't hope for US chicken meat. Allowable limit for chlorine in Australian carcass wash is 10ppm, same as EU. In US is TWICE at 20ppm. Want some chicken with your chlorine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Eat in the swimming pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Eat in the swimming pool. It's full of Vitamin P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 You are on urine there.. I stay out of swimming pools. Chlorine is carcinogenic. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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