Milk price changes

Updated 07 January 2025

The latest publicly announced milk price changes as reported by the processors.

No January blues for GB milk prices

Milk price announcements have held firm for the start of 2025, with all but four contributors of the AHDB league table making no change to milk prices in January.

On retail aligned contracts Waitrose, Tesco, Co-op and M&S all continued to hold their prices for another month. Sainsbury’s however moved their price lower for the second month in a row, down 0.05ppl in January.

Non-aligned milk contracts were also stable over all month on month. Muller Direct, Freshways, Paynes, Grahams and Yew Tree all announced no change to their milk price this month.  But there were slight increases made for those supplying Crediton (+0.10ppl) and Pembrokeshire Creamery (+0.22ppl).

Cheese contracts followed the stability seen in liquid milk contracts. At the time of reporting Lactalis had not made a public announcement, all other league table participants confirmed no price change in January (Barbers, Belton, First Milk, Saputo, SCC, Wensleydale and Wyke).

Movements on manufacturing contacts were a little more mixed. Pattemores and Meadow both continued to hold their milk price. Meanwhile Arla Direct moved up 0.86ppl, however Arla UK have made a ‘quarterly currency smoothing adjustment’ of -0.27ppl.

The milk price changes may not be fully reflected in the AHDB League Table.

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