Milk prices on the rise

peewhyeff

Usually pay £1 for 4 PTS but seems to have jumped up to £1.09 and £1.10 everywhere I've been this week,. EXCEPT ICELAND,. Still 99p in Iceland but for how long. 10% rise !

redfox

It's apparently due to dairy closures so less being produced with a consequent shortage of supply.

I still think it's far too low to give dairy farmers a decent price for their product and is almost certainly why dairies are closing already. That's going to have a knock on effect of increasing prices further as fewer will be producing.

I know the consumer wants cheap milk but it is only sensible and fair to pay a decent price to the producers to keep their businesses viable. Otherwise everybody loses out in the end.

Browntoa

Yes it's loss making pricing forcing farmers to stop production .

Pay a market price for it supermarkets !

System

Butter, cream and products containing these such biscuits and cakes have gone up in price too

McKneff

I've been trying to do my bit at Morrisons 23p extra for farmers.
It didnt help apparently

Mojisola

peewhyeff wrote: »

Usually pay £1 for 4 PTS but seems to have jumped up to £1.09 and £1.10 everywhere I've been this week,. EXCEPT ICELAND,. Still 99p in Iceland but for how long. 10% rise !

And yet the price to farmers is dropping -
https://www.fginsight.com/news/news/mullers-january-price-drop-sparks-anger-among-dairy-farming-community-44302

artyclarty

Lidl now £1.09 too and £1.48 for 6 pints. Glad I picked mine up the other day!

z1a

artyclarty wrote: »

Lidl now £1.09 too and £1.48 for 6 pints. Glad I picked mine up the other day!

Wow, good for you. How many pennies have you saved?

Steve059

McKneff wrote: »

I've been trying to do my bit at Morrisons 23p extra for farmers.
It didnt help apparently

I suspect that it helped Morrisons.

peewhyeff

Iceland still 99p. (Though Morrison's have now increased the price of ,2kg bag of sugar, has been 88p for ages, now increased to £1).

antrobus

Mojisola wrote: »

And yet the price to farmers is dropping -
https://www.fginsight.com/news/news/mullers-january-price-drop-sparks-anger-among-dairy-farming-community-44302

Only those that supply Mullers.

The average GB farmgate milk price was 29.98ppl in Sept which is an annual increase of 30.7%.

https://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/market-information/milk-prices-contracts/farmgate-prices/uk,-gb-and-ni-farmgate-prices/#.Wiy_AUpl-M8