Charlotte Smith
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35 appearances
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first heard Jan 2015
last heard Jan 2015
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How much you are paid depends on who you're selling it to and what it's going to be used for.
About half the milk produced in the UK goes as liquid milk.
The rest goes into food like cheese and yoghurt and so on and so forth.
Forget cheese, just for a minute.
Of that liquid milk, that's half the milk produced in the UK, a third of it is sold to retailers who base the price they pay on what it costs the farmers to produce milk.
So that's people, Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S and the co-op, they all have dedicated suppliers.
Yes, in simple terms, yes.
Exactly, because they need milk.
And so M&S and Sainsbury's at the moment are paying 34 pence a litre, Tesco 32 pence a litre, the Co-op 30.5 pence a litre.
The rest of the milk, that is sold to processors, and those are the people who have, over the past year, been making big cuts.
Now, Arla announced just recently that for February, its price will stay the same at 25 pence a litre.
Muller-Wiseman, also holding prices at 25 pence a litre.
Dairycrest says next month there will be a further cut, and so farmers supplying them will get about 24.5 pence a litre.
And First Milk, which is a farmer cooperative which announced delays in payments recently, is paying about 22 pence a litre to its producers.
So there you can see that those farmers aren't getting anything like the average of 28 pence a litre it's costing them.
It depends.
It depends, it depends, it depends.
Globally, it has been a good time for milk, so there is a lot more milk being produced.
Exactly.
And what complicated it was that in China, which was a massively expanding market, they had a couple of scandals.
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