Dairy Industry News and Features

Our Weekly News Bulletin is available by email. To receive it please email info@ipmsltd.co.uk.

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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1ppl Milk Price rise for suppliers to Wells Farm Dairy (Liquid) – from 1st July

This increases producers standard liquid milk price to 29ppl.

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2ppl Split Milk Price increase for Suppliers to Llaeth Cymreig (Welsh Liquid) – from 1st June & 1st July

This increase is desperately needed by its supplying farmers who we reckon have been on a liquid standard litre price of 26ppl since 1st September 2020. The 1st June 1ppl increase takes producers standard litre to 27ppl and the 1ppl 1st July increase takes it to 28ppl.

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0.75ppl Milk Price increase for suppliers to Belton Farm (Cheese) – from 1st July

This increase takes producers manufacturing standard litre price to 30.05ppl and based on a liquid standard litre to 29.3ppl.

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0.57ppl Milk Price increase for members of First Milk – from 1st July

This increases members manufacturing standard litre price to 30.5ppl.

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0.89ppl Milk Price increase for Sainsburys (SDDG) producers – from July 1st

This increase takes the standard liquid litre prices to Muller 32.69ppl Arla       32.57ppl

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Still to declare any Milk Price movement in June or July

County Milk Products Lanchester Cotteswold Greencroft (Northlakes) Jacksons   If you know different please email Ian. If its correct all five, who are in Middle ground liquid and/or brokerage, are currently guilty of dragging their heels and falling behind.

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GDT down 0.9%

Last weeks GDT 1st June auction index corrected prices a further 0.9% to average US$4128 tonne.   Notable movements were as follows: Cheddar               up           0.5% to average US $4324 WMP                    down    0.5% to average US $4062 SMP                       down    0.5% to average US $3415 Butter                   down    5.4% to avera

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Global outlook is bright

Despite a run of four small GDT average price index declines (which some describe as insignificant) Fonterra and others remain very positive as to the next 12 months New Zealand farmgate milk price outlook.   The Co-op has declared an opening 2021/22 farmgate milk price forecast range of $7.25 to $8.75kg milk solids which is equivalent to 28ppl to 33.74ppl.

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£20m Greenfield Anglesy Cheese plant to open in September

A state of the art cheese plant with the capacity to produce Welsh and European cheeses including Cheddar, Edam, and Gouda is set to take milk from September creating 100 jobs in Anglesey.   The project planning started life in 2016 and has taken 5 years to reach this stage. This Bulletin first mentioned the project in early March 2017, which at the time was planned to take circa 40 million litres a year from a group of 20 local spring grazers.

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0.75ppl Milk Price increase for suppliers to Joseph Heler (cheese) – from 1st July

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0.75ppl Milk Price increase for Muller Direct Suppliers – from July 1st

This increases producer’s standard liquid litre price to 29ppl including the Muller advantage premium of 1ppl for which 96% of Muller producers have opted to take part in.

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0.8ppl Milk Price increase for suppliers to Wensleydale Creamery (cheese) – from June 1st

This increases producer’s manufacturing standard litre price to 29.45ppl and liquid standard litre price to 28.5ppl.

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