The on farm position requires no explanation it’s set to be a very expensive autumn and winter for many UK dairy farmers with little chance of production forecasts being achieved given that most are well into first cut silage and second cut silage is either non-existent or second class in terms of milk production. Most processors realise that at current milk prices coupled with increasing costs production is set to fall.
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New Zealand co-op Fonterra has revised its 2017/2018 farm gate milk forecast to NZ$6.70 per kg milk solids equivalent to a UK liquid standard litre price of 26.08ppl. Note, this is for last year not the current year.
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It’s a hot potato but Arla have confirmed that any UK organic supplier who utilises a derogation to use non-organic forage, including those who only use the derogation for young stock, will suffer a 2.67ppl deduction and their milk will be segregated and go into the Arla conventional pool. Arla’s organic milk price for September is held at 40.8ppl based on a liquid standard litre and 42.
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Arla is offering logistics support to help Forage Aid by delivering emergency supplies of animal feed to livestock farmers during the extreme drought conditions. Graham Wilkinson talks about why it is important for farmers to support farmers in these challenging conditions; "Last year our logistics colleagues did a fantastic job of supporting Forage Aid by helping them distribute emergency supplies to farmers impacted by the Cumbrian floods and now we have a very different threat to our farmers and their livestock due to the extreme drought conditions.
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A jaw dropping promotion by FarmFoods of 4 litres of whole or semi-skimmed milk for £1.60 has caused a bit of a stir. From the leaflet the code reads like UKOHO29EC. Two middle ground usual suspects names are in circulation but rather than setting hares running it would be good to crack the code and print the name of the processor. If any reader can crack the code please email Ian (ianpotter@ipaquotas.
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This takes producers standard liquid litre price to 29.5ppl
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This takes producers standard liquid litre price to 29.5ppl
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This takes producers standard liquid litre price litre to 29.5ppl and based on a standard manufacturing litre to 30.25ppl
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This takes producers standard liquid litre price litre to 29.5ppl
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This takes producers standard liquid litre price to 28.99ppl and based on a standard manufacturing litre to 30ppl
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This takes producers standard liquid litre 29ppl manufacturing 30.03ppl
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