0.9ppl (1 euro cent) further milk price increase for all Arla members – from 1st January

This includes a positive quarterly currency exchange rate adjustment 0.01ppl

 

This latest increase results in the following standard litre price and is a 0.9ppl increase for both organic and conventional supplies.

 

                                                                Conventional      Organic

Manufacturing Standard Litre                37.58ppl          45.03ppl

 

Liquid Standard Litre                               36.14ppl           43.31ppl

 

In the Arla press release it states “The value of producing milk is increasing like never before with these costs and those of ensuring a sustainable future for dairy and it can no longer be treated like a basic commodity” Graham Wilkinson, Arla Foods.

 

Very carefully chosen words some other processors are advised to digest.  Four milk processors, one cheese, one broker and two liquid, are dragging their heels and a number of their farmers and contacting Ian asking where they can move to, they are certainly risking their future supplies.  Of the four unnamed processors not one would get even a minute’s consideration from Ian as a long-term processor assuming they all remain in business.

Two are buying spot milk at 50p which means less money for the core loyal farmers.