NI Milk Auction price Plummets 20%.BBC Radio - Farming Today Podcast
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Channel: holsteincowboy · 2012 · Pets & Animals
Northern Irish milk auction price has plummeted more than 20% this year.This week Wiseman dairies & Dairy Crest have slashed their milk price to just 26 PPL - 4 pence below the cost of production..Other milk buyers will now jump on the band wagon and cut prices to their producers.. Meanwhile feed ,fertiliser and diesel prices are going through the roof .No wonder so many producers are selling up and getting out of milk production for good. Driving back home in LandRover Defender after hauling 4 cows to local slaughterhouse