Why has Milk gone up so much lately?

RHYSDAD

Milk should be 50p a pint to ensure British Dairy farmers make a fair living on what they produce. People would never pay £2 for 4 pints of milk yet would happily squander a fiver on a naff bottle of plonk...

robin58

MiserlyMartin wrote: »

Have you ever seen a poor farmer in the UK? I haven't, they all seem to be well off, posh and drive very new range rovers.

Urban myth, always trotted out.

Unless you can supply me with verifiable names and addresses of seven farmers and pictures of their new. land Rovers

jaydeeuk1

robin58 wrote: »

Urban myth, always trotted out.

Unless you can supply me with verifiable names and addresses of seven farmers and pictures of their new. land Rovers

What would count as a 'poor farmer'? Less than £1/2m in land value?

jon81uk

I think milk is too cheap anyway.
Coca-Cola at full price is £1.84 for 1.75 litres, milk is £1 for 2.2 litres. It takes a lot more effort to make milk than it does Coke!

I can remember a few years ago when it was £1.40-1.50 for a four pint bottle of milk, before it became a loss-leader for the supermarket price war.

jaydeeuk1

jon81uk wrote: »

I think milk is too cheap anyway.
Coca-Cola at full price is £1.84 for 1.75 litres, milk is £1 for 2.2 litres. It takes a lot more effort to make milk than it does Coke!

I can remember a few years ago when it was £1.40-1.50 for a four pint bottle of milk, before it became a loss-leader for the supermarket price war.

Agree, milk incredibly cheap compared to say petrol, yet people love to moan about fuel prices and how Asda dare put up their prices by 1p a litre

Murphybear

MiserlyMartin wrote: »

Have you ever seen a poor farmer in the UK? I haven't, they all seem to be well off, posh and drive very new range rovers.

I live in the heart of the farming community in Devon and can assure you that many farmers are struggling, especially those supplying milk at cost or less.

[Deleted User]

Times are hard for many of us and will pay the cheapest I can for milk as I have 5 mouths to feed. In fact I've taken it one step further by buying full fat milk and diluting it by 50%. The kids and the other half have not noticed and I can save £150 a year by doing this.

glider3560

Stupid question: but why do farmers sell their milk for less than cost price, as we keep hearing?

If all the farmers said "no, I'll make a loss", then the supermarkets wouldn't have any milk to sell and the price they pay would increase.

Simple supply and demand.

dzug1

glider3560 wrote: »

Stupid question: but why do farmers sell their milk for less than cost price, as we keep hearing?

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Because they recover some of their costs that way rather than none of them if they didn't sell any milk. So as smaller loss

dzug1

alanq wrote: »

MySupermarket.co.uk says 4pts of semi-skimmed at ALDI is 89p.

Also 89p at Iceland.

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It's only gone up very recently at Aldi and Lidl - hasn't (yet) done so in Iceland