Dairy Bulletin News Archive

First Milk have publically put the For Sale sign up on its two Scottish creameries in Arran and Campbeltown, having unsuccessfully tried for at least three years to sell them under the public radar to numerous potential purchasers. Whilst Arran and Mull of Kintyre Cheddar are both popular quality branded cheeses the fact is First Milk have battled to make any money from them so commercially they have to be disposed of as the co-op continues to divest itself of loss making enterprises and downsizes.

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What has been described as “a powerful alliance of 52 organisations” has produced a report, “Principles for Eating Meat and Dairy More Sustainably : the less and better approach” They have delivered the report to DEFRA as their submission to the government’s consultation on the post Brexit Agriculture Policy, which we all know is badged as a green Brexit. The report highlights eight reasons why eating less meat and dairy will impact on the climate, animal welfare, nature, health, worldwide access to food, effectiveness of antibiotics, resource use and waste and even the livelihoods of farmers.

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Dairy UK were quick to respond to the report and cut straight to the chase in stating that “the environmental and nutritional contribution of the dairy sector has been wilfully misrepresented”.  The response then proceeds to accurately address and challenge the reports eight key punch points. It’s worth reading the one page response from Dairy UKt …….. http://www.

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Barry Wilson was certainly long overdue some recognition for his lifetime contribution to the dairy industry and his direct commentary on dairy politics for more than 40 years. The RABDF have rectified this with their 2018 Princess Royal Award.  The two publications Barry had under his wing were The Dairy Industry Newsletter and British Dairying.

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Having purchased most, if not all, of these 3,000 customers when Muller bought the Dairy Crest business 2 years ago they have decided to cut their circa £5million a year losses and go to consultation on simply closing the doors and it appears there is no plan to sell the operation to a third party. A 45 day consultation has started involving around 250 jobs who are involved in deliveries to businesses, restaurants, pubs, bakeries and food service caterers etc.

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This takes producers’ standard liquid litre milk price to 26.0ppl, however, with the re-introduction of the retail supplement the figure increases to 26.2ppl. In addition, Muller have confirmed Muller Direct suppliers’ April deliveries are expected to receive a retail supplement of circa 0.15ppl.

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This is an across the board harmonisation of the matrix of regional First Milk member milk prices, which results in a standard liquid litre milk price of 26ppl.  This will be under the heading of First Milk liquid in addition to which will sit a First Milk manufacturing milk price 26.88ppl.  Going forward First Milk will only have the two contracts and two milk prices.

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This takes producer’s standard liquid litre milk price to 26.75ppl

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This takes producers standard manufacturing litre milk price to 27.7ppl and based on a standard liquid litre to 26.75ppl. 

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This takes producers standard liquid litre milk price to 26.28ppl (www.milkprices.com)

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Dairy Crest have imposed their first price reduction of 1ppl for May having failed to reach agreement with DCD for the first time since the formation of the DPO. This 1ppl reduction takes producers standard manufacturing litre milk price to 28ppl and based on a standard liquid litre to 26.92ppl, which it has to be said is a healthy May price. Deadlock means that any DCD Davidstow farmers can leave only serving 3 months termination notice as opposed to the contracted 12 months.

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Today’s GDT auction saw the average all products price fall for the fourth consecutive auction by 0.6% to average US$3477 tonne. Notable price movements were: SMP down 1.8% to average US$1849 tonne WMP up 1.6% to average US$3278 tonne Cheddar up 2.2% to average US$3679 tonne Butter up 4.1% to average US$5494 tonne

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