🧐 Ever wonder how milk prices are determined? And just how much control does your processor have over them? 🥛

🌍 Milk Prices are influenced by global markets.

🇮🇪 From an Irish perspective, processors actually don't have much control over milk prices.

➡️ Since 🇮🇪 we export

📣 Have you heard about Kerry's latest brand? They've launched Smug, a blend of oat & dairy, which they say gives consumers a more sustainable way of consuming #dairy .

But let's chat about the bigger picture – how does this affect our #DairyFarmers ? 🐄💡 Could there be

I think the real question should be, are farmers even earning minimum wage themselves?

A new fairlife production facility broke ground in the Western New York town of Webster, New York. The $650 million dollar investment will bring 250 jobs to the area, and will be the largest dairy production facility in the northeast once construction is complete. Empire State

The Board of Carbery has agreed a 5cpl support payment for farmer shareholders on March milk supplied, to ease pressure from recent bad weather. This is in addition to other relief measures from Coops. March base milk price has also increased. Details ⬇️
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🍫 Cadbury UK White #Chocolate Buttons Vs Nestlé's Milkybar 🍫 Worried about #PalmOil ? ⭐️Opt for Cadbury White Chocolate Buttons as it contains ✅ No Palm Oil 🙌

📣 Hey #Cadbury , let's extend this to the Dairy Milk range in the UK & Ireland! You're doing it in Australia &

In Ireland 🇮🇪 , we’ve seen the prices for this season drop about 5c\L. So what does this really mean? If you're milking 100 cows 🐄, producing 5000 litre per animal, that's a €25,000 drop in income 😬

🙌 Farmers, ask your dairy processors when are they going to start giving you

Fonterra’s first two fixed milk price events for the 2024-2025 season saw an estimated combined 800 farmers send in applications.

The first event in March saw 100 farmers apply for a fixed milk price offering of $8.09/kg MS. The event had 20 million kg MS made available with the

📰 Have you seen Fonterra’s press release? Under the FTA they've contracted 10K tonnes of product. What impact will this have on English & Irish #cheese 🧀?

Kudos to #Fonterra for being the original leaders in price transparency with the GDT auction 🙌! But it's time for more

📰 Have you seen Fonterra’s press release? Under the FTA they've contracted 10K tonnes of product. What impact will this have on English & Irish #cheese 🧀?
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Kudos to #Fonterra for being the original leaders in price transparency with the GDT auction 🙌!

Global Dairy Trade Event 354 concluded with the GDT Price Index up 0.1%

Key Results*
AMF index up 1.7%, average price US$7,062/MT (€6,627/MT)
Butter index down 1.4%, average price US$6,546/MT (€6,143/MT)
Ched index down 8.5%, average price US$3,974/MT (€3,729/MT)
LAC index

🐄📣 Calling all #DairyFarmers to help us with our #poll ! We'd love to hear from you! Thanks a million 🙏

⁉️ Are you planning on leaving the #dairy sector in the next 2 years?

The latest 2024 production cost analysis reveals a stark reality: producing British apples is becoming increasingly unsustainable, with costs rising to £1.33 per kilo—a 5.5% increase in just one year. This trend underscores a growing crisis, as costs have surged by 30% over two

📰 👀 Irish Farmers Journal ‘Not enough #milk & too much capacity means co-ops face another difficult year.’ We have been talking about this for the last year!

🏭 What impact will this have on you #dairyfarmers ? Is your processor protecting you from risk?

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In case you missed this month's 'Milk Price Monthly', you can listen now to Diarmaid Mac Colgáin of ConceptDairy™ and Ian Harvey of the NFU Dairy committee discuss the factors in milk price negotiations.

Watch the full episode for FREE here: agriinsider.tv/programs/conce…

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If you missed Monday's 'Milk Price Monthly', you can listen to Diarmaid Mac Colgáin of ConceptDairy™ and Ian Harvey of the NFU Dairy committee talk about Dairy Producer Organisations (DPOs).

Watch the full episode for FREE here: agriinsider.tv/programs/conce…

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Happy birthday, Jeremy Clarkson! 🎈

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