0.5ppl milk price increase for suppliers to Saputo (AKA Dairy Crest) – from 1st October

Posted on: 28/08/20

The 1st September milk price negotiations between Dairy Crest Direct/DPO and Saputo didn’t end well, and the failure to agree the September milk price triggered deadlock and with that the option for any DCD producers to leave after 3 months.

This 1st October agreed 0.5ppl increase will likely mean no DCD/Saputo suppliers will actually leave to supply another milk buyer, especially given the new standard manufacturing litre price is 29.15ppl and based on a liquid standard litre 28.11ppl, hot on the heels of the key GB farmgate milk price pace setter, Arla, who currently stand at 29.26ppl and 28.17ppl respectively.