date:Feb 24, 2012
UK Dairy Product Production
Provisional production data from Defra showed that 589,900 tonnes of liquid milk were produced in December, approximately 400 tonnes (0.1%) more than December last year.
Cumulatively, liquid milk production for the 12 months endingDecember 2011 was 1.8%(126,400 tonnes) higher compared with the same period endingDecember 2010 at 7,067 thousand tonnes.
Butter production wasup by1,500 tonnes (15.6%) in December compared with the previous year at 11,200 tonne