Herd notes: Setting up a strategy for swingeing milk price cuts

UK milk suppliers already know their March milk price, while their January price only dropped by the equivalent of a cent a litre (0.86ppl).

There is a great degree of frustration in dairy farms over the last few weeks as significant drop in milk price have been announced, and the prospects of further drops are being suggested for the coming months. 

It is shocking that when milk price is on the way up, they drop small cent per month crumbs in terms of uplifts, but can easily slap a six cents per litre cut in one go.