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United Dairy Power A Guaranteed price. This makes the farmers annual budgeting decisions much easier, and improves financial certainty. | Other milk companies may offer Step ups are budgeted, with no guarantee of actual return to farmer. Farm suppliers have less certainty when completing their annual budget, as to what their income will be. |
| Larger payments at the start of the season, mean, farm suppliers get the cash in their account faster, thiscan reduce interest costs, and allow them make better purchasing decisions. | Pay less upfront with budgeted step-ups. As such they use their farm supplier’s balance sheet to fund their purchases and processing, pending budgeted sales. |
| Farm suppliers receive the full cash price for their milk sales. | Shares are sometimes offered instead of cash. Due to the nature of these shares, restrictions apply in terms of their saleability and their ability to be leveraged. |
| The people who own UDP run UDP. This means we are conscious of keeping our costs low, and our payments and service high, because it directly affects our hip pocket. | Most other milk companies are owned by numerous shareholders, so usually the people running the business are making decisions about other people's money, not their own. With co-operatives that money is usually yours. |
| UDP has a high ratio of field representatives to farm suppliers. This means farm supplirs have a close working relationship with their representative who are available whenever required. | |