Fears of milk levy penalty ease after winter intake slows

Martin Ryan

However, a prudent approach to production will be needed all the way to the end of the marketing year on March 31, to avoid a super levy bill.

Official figures for intake at the processors to the beginning of December showed that when adjusted for butterfat, the country was 0.4% under its year-to-date milk quota, thus reversing the summer and early autumn pattern of over-production.