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^{Note, all standard litre prices are those quoted by www.milkprices.com and are based on the following:

The liquid standard litre 4% bf, 3.3% protein, 30,000/ml Bactoscans, 200,000/ml SCC, 1 million litres a year on EODC but before seasonality, monthly profile payments, balancing, B price additions, capital retentions or annual incentive schemes. The manufacturing standard litre is to exactly the same specification with the exception of 4.2%bf and 3.4% protein.}

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15/02/19

Muller to fix its lack of profitability

Muller are embarking on a £100m cost saving exercise called project Darwin which on the face of it will come from activities beyond the farmgate which milk supplying farmers will be pleased to hear. The project is expected to be completed with 2 years of starting and is already in train. It’s a big project and will cover logistics, back office, administration, processing and some of Muller’s customers could find they are axed if their business to Muller is loss making.

15/02/19

Grahams Dairies renew its supply contract with Aldi

Grahams Dairies of Scotland have agreed a 5 year extension to its contract with Aldi to supply 85 Scottish Aldi stores with a range of products made from Scottish milk including milk, butter, yoghurt, creams etc. The deal is worth North of £55 million and continues a partnership between the two businesses which started in 2010. The contract is the largest Grahams have agreed.

15/02/19

Belton Farm to hold its producer milk price for March

This means until 1st April the Belton standard manufacturing litre milk price will be 28.75ppl and based on a standard liquid litre 28ppl.

15/02/19

First Milk to hold its Members Milk Price for March

This means First Milks members manufacturing standard litre price remains at 28.43ppl and based on a liquid standard litre 27.5ppl.

15/02/19

0.75ppl milk price reduction for suppliers to Grahams Dairy Scotland from - 1st March

Producers supplying Grahams received letters this morning notifying them of the 0.75ppl reduction which results in a standard liquid litre milk price of 26.75ppl.

15/02/19

0.75ppl milk price reduction for suppliers to Wensleydale Creamery – from 1st February

This is highly likely to be the final February 1st price change which was notified to producers at the end of January, The result s a standard manufacturing litre milk price of 28.7ppl and based on a standard liquid litre 27.75ppl.

15/02/19

1ppl milk price reduction for suppliers to OMSCO – from 1st March

The price change will affect 250 OMSCO supplying farmers and is a direct reflection on the challenging uncertainties OMSCO face as a no deal Brexit looms closer to reality. In addition members have been notified it is unlikely there will be and 13th payment for the 2018/19 milk year. At the same time the Co-op is also introducing an A & B milk pricing mechanism in a bid to limit the impact of the additional litres they have to handle both in terms of increasing production and in the event OMSCO’s successful dairy product exports come to a sudden halt on 27th March.

15/02/19

1.25ppl milk price reduction for suppliers to Pensworth (liquid) – from 1st March

This result in a standard liquid litre price of 26.35ppl.

11/02/19

GDT bounces up again by a further 4.2%

Tuesdays GDT Auction saw the average all products price up a further 4.2% which is its 4th consecutive rise and follows hot on the heels of rises of 2.2%, 1.7% and 2.8%. This is yet more encouraging news to emphasise the necessity for farmgate milk prices to at least stabilise from March 1st at the latest. In less than two months the average price has now bounced up by 12% from $2727 to average $3057 tonne.

11/02/19

0.5ppl milk price reduction for suppliers to Belton Farm (Cheese) – from 1st February

This results in a standard manufacturing litre price of 28.75ppl and based on a standard liquid litre 28ppl.

31/01/19

DIN CONFERENCE MAY 9-10, 2019

Save the Date This year’s Dairy Industry Newsletter annual dairy conference will be May 9-10 in London, at the Tara Copthorne Hotel as usual. The theme is ‘Will Dairy Supply Continue to Outstrip Demand?’ As the world’s dairy markets become more and more interlinked and world commodity dairy prices become more globalised, supply and demand also becomes more globalised, with events on one side of the world having an impact on the other.

31/01/19

EU Aged SMP is sold

At last the European Union has almost cleared the last of close to 400,000 tonnes of Intervention SMP. This is good news and eliminates a big black cloud which has hung over Europe and the world dairy industry for almost 4 years. The tonnage started to accumulate in the summer of 2015. Its sale will certainly help the current price of fresh SMP.