Global Dairy Trade lists fourth consecutive increase
Farmers Weekly Dairy market sentiment continues to improve with a 3.5% jump in the latest (6 December) Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction. The index for Fonterra’s online dairy commodity auction is at...
View ArticleProducer share of retail lamb continues fall
Farmers Weekly The producer’s share of the retail lamb prices fell by a single percentage point between October and November to 47%. Despite the proportion now slipping below the five-year average, the...
View ArticleGraham’s dairy abandons A and B milk contracts
Farmers Weekly Scottish milk buyer Graham’s has stopped using A and B contracts as of 1 December, following an open consultation with its farmers. The new pricing structure will involve a single-pool...
View ArticlePutin dairy products on menu for all Russians
Farmers Weekly Premium dairy products previously only available to Kremlin officials will be sold to all Russians for the first time. Milk, buttermilk, sour cream, yoghurt and cheese will all be sold...
View ArticleMilk price rise for Dale Farm producers
Farmers Weekly Dale Farm has raised it November milk price by 1p/litre to 27p/litre for milk of standard constituents. The Northern Irish processor has now raised its prices in five consecutive months,...
View ArticleMeadow Foods increases milk price by 2.15p/litre
Farmers Weekly Meadow Foods has raised its standard A litre milk price by 2.15p/litre from 1 January 2017. The increase, the seventh in a row will pay the processor’s 500 producers 26.55p/litre for A...
View ArticleFinal Direct Milk price rise as formula contracts wind up
Farmers Weekly Direct Milk DPO has raised its formula milk price by 1.298p/litre to 31.188p/litre for January. Producers who supply the core formula and signed up from April 2014 will receive a...
View ArticleIndustry split over value of A and B milk contracts
Farmers Weekly Dairy industry representatives are stressing that there remains a place for contracts with A and B prices despite widespread unpopularity among farmers. In a Farmers Weekly straw poll,...
View ArticleHalal consumption increasingly crucial to sheep industry
Farmers Weekly Halal lamb and mutton sales will be increasingly important to the UK sheep market as the country’s Muslim population rises. Sheepmeat retail sales have fallen by a third in 10 years...
View ArticleMap: What dairy producers around the world are paid
Farmers Weekly This year has been a tumultuous one for milk prices at home and across the globe as the worst dairy crisis for 30 years hit its peak in the summer before prices started to return to...
View ArticleIn cartoons: How a farmer’s day might look in the future
Farmers Weekly What will UK agriculture look like in a decade’s time? We take a look at how a farmer’s day might include cloud computing and wi-fi cows as the “internet of things” takes off. It’s early...
View ArticleWhile you were away… dairy round-up
Farmers Weekly GDT falls for a second auction in a row The Global Dairy Trade Index, an indicator of market sentiment, fell to its lowest level for two months after a 3.9% drop in the price index. The...
View ArticleWensleydale Creamery looks to grow producer base
Farmers Weekly The Wensleydale Creamery is looking to attract more dairy farmers to its milk producer group following year-on-year growth and its busiest Christmas ever. The processor, based in the...
View ArticleUK average farmgate milk price at 20-month high
Farmers Weekly The UK’s average farmgate price exceeded 25p/litre in November 2016 for the first time since March 2015, according to the latest Defra figures. In the five months to November 2016, UK...
View ArticleMuller makes it five milk price rises in a row
Farmers Weekly Muller has increased its milk price by 1.25p/litre taking its standard non-aligned price to 27.51p/litre from 1 February. This includes a 0.82p/litre additional retail supplement paid by...
View ArticleDairy farmer’s son offers 'fair price' milk brand
Farmers Weekly A new free-range milk brand that promises a fair price to suppliers has been launched. The initiative was unveiled by entrepreneur and dairy farmer’s son Nick Hiscox of the Free-Range...
View ArticleDagenham dairy closure confirmed by Muller
Farmers Weekly Muller Milk & Ingredients (MMI) have concluded that north-east London dairy plant, Chadwell Heath, will close following a lengthy consultation. A winding-down process will now take...
View ArticleProducer share of retail lamb price falls further
Farmers Weekly The share of the lamb retail price going to producers fell to three percentage points below the five-year average in December, according to AHDB Beef and Lamb. This was despite the...
View ArticleUK April farmgate milk price could hit 30p/litre
Farmers Weekly The UK average farmgate price could reach 30p/litre by April in the face of lower global supply and high commodity prices, said Dairy Group principal consultant, Nick Holt-Martyn. The...
View ArticleMore dairy ups than down as volatility continues in 2017
Farmers Weekly The outlook for dairy in 2017 is a positive one, despite global political uncertainty and the promise of continued market volatility. Milk production and prices should remain at...
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