Compensating farmers’ hard work
DAIRY farmers work long, hard hours every day, not always receiving a fair price for their milk.
It is heartening that Darren O’Brien, president of Mondelez, acknowledged the Cadbury milk suppliers’ “countless hours put into managing a dairy farm … to give us (Cadbury) the world’s best milk” (Chocolate maker talks up local dairy farmers, Mercury, June 15).
Ridgley farmer Marcus Young, who has been supplying Mondelez for three years from his 250 dairy herd, commented that he had received “a really good price this winter. It certainly makes the hard work worthwhile”.
In the 1960s, my dairy farming parents would say, “Good pay for hard work”, when the Cadbury tanker collected our milk in the North-West.
Congratulations Cadbury, making dairy farming financially viable for generations of farmers. Elizabeth Osborne
North Hobart
BENEFIT OF SANDY BAY
In all the discussion about the city move for the university, one point seems to have been overlooked.
For the last 20-plus years I have had students and homeless people living in a small chalet next to my house.
The students have been unable to afford the rent of rooms in the colleges or official university accommodation.
The chalet has never been empty and I have never looked for tenants.
I am not alone in this. Students live in share houses, find cheap rental and lodge in Sandy Bay in large numbers and they are able to walk to the university.
This is not true of the city. In addition they can access all the great things the Sandy Bay campus has to offer.
Margaret Eldridge Sandy Bay