Article: Farmers welcome milk price rise

THREE of the biggest supermarkets yesterday reacted to dairy farmers' demands for higher prices by putting up the cost of milk by 1p a pint. The increases will mean the price shoppers pay for two pints of milk going up from 54p to 56p, four pints from 93p to 98p, and six pints from GBP 1.37 to GBP 1.44.

Farmers' leaders have been arguing for a farm-gate increase because the cost of producing a litre of milk is 19p and the average price they get is about 16p.

Processors - who buy from farmers and pasteurise and package for retailers - and the supermarkets say the main reasons for the low price are farmers producing too much ...

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