The United Kingdom wholesale milk deliveries totalled 1,155.4 million litres in October, the seventh month of the new milk year, figures released by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) show.

At the same time last year this figure was 1,088.2 million litres.

The cumulative total for the year is now 8,558.8 million litres. At the same point in 2013 this figure was 7,933.7 million litres.

The wholesale delivery figures have not been adjusted for butterfat content and all figures are provisional. The RPA relies on individual purchasers to provide the data, which is supplied ‘subject to confirmation’ and may be amended.

Wholesale milk production figures for October.