Tight supply helps push up milk prices

Lower milk production has given support to milk prices but farmers will now be looking at the prospects for the UK and beyond in the next few months

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Tight supply helps push up milk prices

Milk production in the first five months of the milk year from April 2024 to March 2025 was at 5.249 billion litres, according to AHDB figures. That was 1.1% less than in the same period in 2023/24. Production...

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