New Beginnings

At last we have cut the chains that bound us to Dairy Farmers of Britain and are moving forward with another buyer. Last night we went to a meeting with OMSCo. For the past couple of months there have been meetings between farmer committees from OMSCo and DFoB, with a view to forming an Organic Alliance. No news of this leaked out, and the deal was finally agreed and signed on Monday 1st June. If all had gone to plan it would have "gone live" on 1st July. But the events of 3pm on 3rd June, when the receivers took over DFoB pre-empted it. The date was moved forward to today (10th June) and last night we signed our resignation letters to DFoB (faxed to them after the meeting) and, after careful reading, the contract with OMSCo. So our next collection (tomorrow - we are on every other day and were picked up yesterday) will be collected by and paid for by OMSCo. The receivers are paying for the days between going into receivership and our resignation, but we don't know at what price. I expect it will be low. But not as low as the preceding 34 days (zero).

So it's onwards and upwards.

For better or worse.

Good times are round the corner.

A light at the end of the tunnel

For better or worse

For richer for poorer. . . .