date:Jul 07, 2012
the least for too long. No-one is listening, least of all the retailers led by the discounters in the middle ground.
This week Dairy Crest announced a 1.65p/litre price cut to its Dairy Crest Direct suppliers from August, with milk priced at just 24.92p/litre: a milk price loss of 4.41p/litre on every litre supplied.
Impossible to break even
Kite Consulting said the latest break even milk price position was 29.33p/l, and DCD warned that the average farmer would lose ?53,000 per year, and su