Parliamentarians back new Dairy Makes A Difference initiative
‘Dairy Makes a Difference’, a new initiative aimed at highlighting the benefits of dairy products and the dairy industry, was launched at the House of Commons today with support from across the political spectrum. Parliamentarians from all major parties signed written declarations of how ‘Dairy Makes a Difference’ to them and urged other MPs, Peers […]
RPA releases February 2014 milk production figures
The United Kingdom wholesale milk deliveries totalled 1090.1 million litres in February, figures published by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) show. At the same time last year this figure was 978.1 million litres. The cumulative total for the year is now 12,413.7 million litres. At the same point in 2013 this figure was 11,862.4 million […]
Tesco announces new lower price for milk
Tesco has today announced that the price of a four pint bottle of milk has been cut from £1.39 to £1 from Monday 3rd March, as part of the retailer’s focus on every day low prices on the products that matter most to its customers. The announcement comes a week after Tesco cut prices on […]
Arla Foods to increase direct milk price
Arla Foods is raising its standard litre milk price for direct suppliers from 1 March 2014, to 33.50ppl. The increase is as a result of improved business performance in the UK and follows the increase in the global owner milk price from February. Commenting on the 1 March increase, Ash Amirahmadi, Arla UK’s head of […]
Milk Race returns to Nottingham in 2014
The event, which was brought back in 2013 by The Dairy Council and the Milk Marketing Forum after a 20 year hiatus, will take place for the second year running in Nottingham on Sunday 25 May as a major city centre race. For 2014, The Milk Race will once again be a key event in […]
Protein Measurement Standard expanded
IDF and ISO have joined forces to expand the scope of an international standard used worldwide in the dairy industry to measure the protein content of cow’s milk. The Kjeldahl method* now encompasses milk from other species as well as internationally traded dairy products covered by Codex standards. The revised Standard reconfirms the crucial role […]
Arla expects to serve 25 billion glasses of milk in 2014
Milk facts: This staggering number of 250ml glasses, more specifically 25,297,087,378, will come from Arla’s fresh, UHT and milk powder operations around the world. This amount represents a bit over half of Arla’s entire milk production expected for 2014. Just to get an idea of how much milk that is, lining up all the glasses […]
RPA releases December milk production figures
The United Kingdom wholesale milk deliveries totaled 1,150.7 million litres in December, figures published by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) show. At the same time last year this figure was 1,039.2 million litres. The cumulative total for the year is now 10,151.1 million litres. At the same point in 2012 this figure was 9,825.3 million […]
Over 2,800 British dairy farmers now co-owners of Arla Foods amba
The circa 2,800 British farmer owners supply ninety five per cent of Arla UK’s milk pool and are part of the European network of 13,500 farmer owners across Denmark, Germany, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden. Jonathan Ovens, AMCo chairman and British farmer director of Arla Foods amba, said: “We have been working towards becoming […]
