Dairy Industry News and Features

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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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Orders for sexed semen rocket

Several articles during the past three months in the New Zealand Dairy press confirm demand for sexed semen is rocketing with one firm claiming almost a doubling in demand from 110,000 last year to over 200,000 this. The main driver is the ability to produce the next generation of heifers from your best and highest genetic cows in addition to reducing the number of unwanted male calves (Bobby calves) Whilst the semen firms involved generally accept they achieve 90% conception rates this reduced rate is more than eclipsed by the improvement in genetic gain.

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1.5ppl Milk price increase for DCD (AKA Saputo/Davidstow cheese) suppliers – from 1st December

This increase takes standard manufacturing standard litre to 32.65ppl and based on a liquid standard litre 31.49ppl

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1ppl milk price increase for conventional suppliers to Belton Farm (cheese) - from 1st December

This increases producers manufacturing standard litre to 31.05ppl and based on a liquid standard litre to 30.3ppl. 

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2.5ppl milk price increase for members to South Caernarfon Creameries (SCC) Co-op (cheese) - from 1st December and 1st January

SCC are the only milk processor to announce back-to-back farmgate price increases including one for January 1st. The 2.5ppl increase results in the following www.milkprices.com standard litre prices                                                                 Manufacturing         Liquid                                  1st December          32.1ppl                  31.

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1ppl milk price increase for Llaeth Cymreig (Welsh liquid) suppliers – from 1st November

This increases producer’s liquid standard litre price to 29ppl including a loyalty bonus.

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0.75ppl milk price increase for Arla directs – from 1st December

This increases Arla’s direct suppliers (predominantly the non-retail litre price paid to Tesco and Sainsburys aligned farmers) to a liquid standard litre price of 28ppl from 1st December. This is a low off the pace price which should have a 3 in front of it, if it is indeed supposed to be a market related price.  Indeed, by December 1st seems almost inevitable this will be the lowest UK liquid milk price.

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0.9ppl (Euro Cent per kg) milk price increase for Arla Members – from 1st November

This increase takes producers manufacturing standard litre price to 33.52ppl and based on a liquid standard litre to 32.26ppl.   Meanwhile, the Arla members organic milk price remains a stand on for November at 40.98ppl (manufacturing) and 39.43ppl (liquid).   Arla’s Press release announcement of this increase is far from a fanfare and clearly highlights that Arla’s top Management realise it’s a step in the right direction but by no means enough to cancel out on farm cost inflation particularly in fertilizer and fuel.

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1ppl milk price increase for Crediton Dairy (Liquid) suppliers – From 1st December

This increase takes producers liquid standard litre price to 31.5ppl including Crediton’s 0.5ppl 13th payment.

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0.7ppl milk price increase for Tesco aligned producers – From 1st November

This increase is based on the TSOG cost tracker and takes TSOG producers standard liquid litre milk price to 33.36ppl (Muller Group) and 33.11ppl (Arla)

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1.4 ppl milk price increase for Yew Tree Dairy (Liquid) suppliers – From 1st October

This increase takes producers liquid standard litre price to 30.5ppl

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1.5ppl milk price increase for Pensworth (liquid) suppliers from 1st November

This increase takes producers liquid standard litre price to 30ppl

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Spot & Cream of global production

Meanwhile spot milk has broken the 40ppl barrier with trades now running at 42 to 43ppl and occasionally 44 to 45p It’s a similar story with both UK bulk cream prices, which could very soon hit £2.00kg (currently £1.95).   Meanwhile global milk production for the year is forecast to be down 1.1 billion litres. Here at home GB milk deliveries for September were down 1.

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