Digitalising the purchase of Feed, Fuel and Fertiliser for dairy farmers to help manage price volatility

饲料、燃料和化肥，即3F，对奶农来说都是至关重要的原料。自2021年夏天以来，3F的成本一直在螺旋式上升，这使得乳制品生产成本极具挑战性，农民几乎没有能力接受净零倡议，因为他们不知道自己的业务是否有利可图。奶农目前几乎没有能力控制他们的投入成本。购买3F通常是一个非常手动的过程，农民只能以现在的价格购买，目前的价格非常高。但整个3F都有开放的市场，产品可以在那里买卖到未来。一般来说，目前只有大公司才能进入这些市场，在那里他们通过交易3G来获得最好的价格。我们正在为农民数字化购买3F，这样他们就可以通过他们的手机看到实时市场价格，购买并锁定未来最适合他们的投入成本。我们正在赋予农民能够独立参与市场的能力，为英国牛奶供应链创造亟需的财务安全和可持续性。通过让农民更好地控制他们的投入成本，我们正在支持他们在财务上可持续。只有通过解决财政可持续性问题，农民才有能力真正拥抱并实现净零。

Feed, Fuel and Fertiliser, the 3Fs, are all vital ingredients for dairy farmers. Since summer 2021, the cost of the 3Fs has been spiralling upwards making the cost of production in dairy extremely challenging and giving farmers very little capacity to embrace net zero initiatives because they don't know if their business will be profitable.Dairy farmers currently have very little ability to control their input costs. Purchasing the 3Fs is generally a very manual process and farmers can only buy at today's prices, which are currently very high.But there are open markets available across the 3Fs, where product is being bought and sold into the future. Generally at the moment, only big companies have access to these markets where they trade the 3Fs to secure the best prices.Concept Dairy's innovation will change this. We're digitalising the purchase of the 3Fs for farmers so that through their phone, they can see what the live market prices are, purchase and lock-in their input costs into the future, when it best suits them. We're empowering farmers to be able to participate in the markets independently, creating much-needed financial security and sustainability of the UK milk supply chain. By giving farmers greater control of their input costs we are supporting them to be financially sustainable. It is only by addressing financial sustainability that farmers will have the capacity to truly embrace and achieve net zero.