Shock 332 million litres extra production previously unreported
Posted on: 08/01/18
DEFRA are clearly still encountering problems reporting UK milk statistics and the latest bombshell came yesterday (4th January) with a shock upward revision of production for the calendar year 2017.
The January to October UK production has been increased by a whopping 332million litre, equivalent to almost an additional 1.1 million litres everyday. A DEFRA spokesperson has commented to Ian that this revision is “due to new information becoming available for some companies in England and Wales”.
Novembers production totalled 1163.5 million litres identical to the amount produced in November 2015 and up 84.6 million litres (+7.8%) on November 2016 production.
AHDB Dairy have highlighted concerns over the figures on several occasions and still believe the DEFRA production data for the period May to December 2016 is around 20 million litres lower than AHDB expect. Consequently AHDB have stated “we would advise caution when looking at year on year changes”.