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^{Note, all standard litre prices are those quoted by www.milkprices.com and are based on the following:

The liquid standard litre 4% bf, 3.3% protein, 30,000/ml Bactoscans, 200,000/ml SCC, 1 million litres a year on EODC but before seasonality, monthly profile payments, balancing, B price additions, capital retentions or annual incentive schemes. The manufacturing standard litre is to exactly the same specification with the exception of 4.2%bf and 3.4% protein.}

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28/08/20

Paynes Dairies (Liquid) to stand on until 1st October

This maintains producers standard liquid litre price at 26ppl.

28/08/20

Wells Farm (Liquid) to stand on until 1st October

This maintains producers standard liquid litre price at circa 26ppl.

28/08/20

Yew Tree Dairy (AKA Woodcocks) to stand on until 1st October

This maintains producers standard liquid litre price at 26.1ppl.

28/08/20

Pattemores (Liquid) to stand on until 1st October

This maintains producers standard liquid litre price at 26.25ppl.

28/08/20

Dairy Partners to stand on until 1st October

This maintains producers standard liquid litre price at under 26ppl.

28/08/20

Freshways (Liquid) to stand on until 1st October

This maintains producers standard liquid litre price at 26ppl with clear evidence they are pushing for further increases in a bid to get farmgate prices to circa 27ppl+. The current cream price, if sustainable, should accelerate this goal, but it won’t be easy to achieve further liquid increases given current conditions.

28/08/20

Medina to stand on until 1st November

This is still to be officially confirmed but when it is, producers liquid standard litre price will be maintained at 25.75ppl. Meanwhile Medinas supply group of 19 farmers formally known as Meadow Milk and their lawyers claim they are waiting for Medina to put forward a proposal which is meaty enough to persuade them not to leave at the end of next month/ September 30th.

28/08/20

Market Snap Shot

The cream and spot markets continue to nudge slightly North, with Cream now trading at around £1.55 kg with spot milk rising to 30/31ppl. A £1.55 kg cream price according to AHDB Dairy is worth 8.8ppl to a liquid processor assuming an average UK butterfat of 4.14% (current 12 month rolling average). Note in April cream values were 90p kg worth only 5.1ppl to a liquid processor.

21/08/20

Arla’s member milk price to stand on for September

Arla’s conventional and organic milk prices for September remain unchanged. This translates to a conventional manufacturing standard litre milk price of 29.26ppl and based on a liquid standard litre 28.17ppl. For Arlas organic members on organic contracts, the manufacturing standard litre remains at 37.62ppl and based on a liquid standard litre at 36.21ppl.

21/08/20

1ppl Milk Price increase for suppliers to Crediton Dairy (Liquid) - from 1st October

This increase takes suppliers standard liquid litre milk price to a healthy 28.5ppl including the 0.5ppl Metrics bonus.

21/08/20

0.5ppl Milk Price increase for members of First Milk - from 1st September

This increases members manufacturing standard litre price to 28.15ppl including the member premium. For those members aligned to the Tesco cheese group the increase takes their manufacturing standard litre price to 29.65ppl. Based on www.milkprices.com First Milks standard liquid litre the price increases to 27.25ppl.

21/08/20

0.9ppl Milk Price increase for suppliers to Cotteswold (Liquid) – from 1st September

The claim is this will put producers Milk Price to 0.5ppl above its pre Covid level. The estimated standard liquid litre price is 25.5ppl and we are endeavouring to obtain an accurate benchmarked price from Cotteswold.