Contents tagged with prices

30 January 2024

The overall price index rose 1.7% at the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) event. This is the fifth consecutive rise for the New Zealand based dairy commodity auction.

30 January 2024

UK wholesale butter prices have been at a discount to EU prices since February 2019 but the gap has recently closed

30 January 2024

It’s often difficult to marry up milk price changes quoted by companies based on standard litres, and the official average milk price paid in the UK, as quoted by Defra. September was no exception, with the Defra average put at 29.68ppl, up 0.88ppl on August, and ahead of the vast majority of “standard litre” prices quoted in our own milk price calculator. So, why the difference?

30 January 2024

How much consumer demand changes differs across products, and will depend on the size of the price change as well as how important the price is in the decision to purchase the good.

30 January 2024

October returns for processors making butter and SMP exceeded returns for producing mild Cheddar for the first time in 16 months

30 January 2024

So far this year, UK milk prices have tracked around £0.20 per kg of solids below the average of the main milk producing countries in the EU.

7 November 2025

How much are you spending on feed? Changes in grains, protein and concentrate prices are updated below every month, along with a summary of the markets.

30 January 2024

The price has moved from $6.25-$7.25 to $6.55-$7.55 per kg milksolids (kgMS)

11 November 2019

UK farm-gate milk prices have been slowly reducing over recent months. Here we look at the challenges facing the industry, which vary for different products and supply chains

21 November 2019

Why has the GB prime cattle price been falling since September 2019? News and insights

30 January 2024

The absence of any increase in processor's sales price for milk, combined with falling cream returns, will have reduced overall revenues and margins since the beginning of the year.

30 January 2024

Cheddar prices have been stable, but whey prices are down, affecting processor returns for cheese

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