Selling Milk Direct - What are the problems?

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:49 am

If you produce your own milk, can you also sell it to locals for their own use? What are the problems / rules? I don't want to sell, I want to buy, and the seller is asking me this question and what better place to ask than a dexter forum.

mildown · Post by **mildown** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:46 pm

hi clive a friend of mine has a dairy farm and he sells the milk straight from the farm i asked him how he gets over the rules and regs. he said that if the public comes to his farm and asks for the milk it ok to sell it as long as he dose not advertise the milk for sale. i dont no if its the right way or not

phill...........

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:13 pm

Thanks Phill

domsmith · Post by **domsmith** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:29 pm

i dont think thats right, you cant sell a cake these days at a village fete without envirnmental health approval so milk will be a red tape night mare

dom

Minnie · Post by **Minnie** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:22 pm

Hi Clive,

I know we're in different countries but we aren't allowed to sell milk. Some small dairies get around it by giving you some milk and have a jar that money goes into but isn't discussed.

So it's between the two of you and if it's for your own consumption and you're not on-selling in some way it's usually okay.

Crazy how everything is so tied up with red tape these days and what's sold in the supermarket is just not as good as straight from the farm.

Vicki

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:24 am

That's what someone else has said vicki/dom, you can give it away as a gift but you shouldn't pay for it, nod nod wink wink know what I mean.

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domsmith · Post by **domsmith** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:27 am

My web connection is dodgy so i wasnt able to reply fully before.

the dairy has to be licenced with a uk number to sell milk. if you look on the side of a bottle of milk or farm produced icecream it will have a uk number in an oval stamp on it.

the milk has to be pasturised and the premises be of food standard.

BUT, my vet used to milk goats. if you wanted milk you left a bottle with him and he would fill it with milk for your cat or dog. what you did with it was up to you, like you say nod nod wink wink etc

its all to protect your health!!!!!

dom

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:00 am

Buy it as pet food is probably a good idea. Maybe even legal.

Here, Sweden, milk farms can actually legally sell small amounts of milk directly from the tank to neighbours. It is a little strange since legislation around food generally is created to support the large-scale and industrial production (as well as protect health). But some small holes have had to be left, probably to prevent farmers from going revolutionary. As if swedish farmers would... not very likely.

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:21 am

Yea, pet food, that's the answer. My dogs love milk.

Every time you post Anna it reminds me of my youth! I was a SAAB 96 fanatic. Stig Blomqvist was my hero, what a driver! And I had one of Per Eklund's second hand engines in my 96. Great car, wish they'd make it again, column change, free-wheel. I remember going through Sweden in my rally car on dirt roads on the way to Finland, and we couldn't keep up with the local taxi drivers who would slide through bends just taking customers to their destination! Lovely country, lovely people.

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Saffy · Post by **Saffy** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:42 am

Hello Clive,

My first car was a lovely plum coloured Sabb 96, the automatic choke left a little to be desired though - tended to work fine when you wanted to get going and then stay on - you would get about a mile!!!!

Stephanie

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:11 pm

There is a bunch of Saab drivers here.. Thoose Saab 96 where nice, unfortunately they are more or less extinct together with the Amazon and (my favourite) Citroen DS population.

Sweden has changed since the sixties I am afraid. Some to the better, some to the worse. Less cows (lots of horses instead). Come visit again, and try some Swedish cheese!

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:21 pm

They don't make cars like the 96 any more. They were seriously tough. I just rolled this one four times, then pushed it back on it's wheels and carried on!!! That's a Welsh forest, not Sweden. My last one was plum as well Stephanie but you can't have bought mine because it ended up worse than this one. Sorry to get off subject.