The creamery will offer 28.5ppl for milk, a 1.5ppl rise, to help support their valued local farmers and kick-start a campaign to raise the price paid for dairy products in the cheese, yoghurt, dessert and butter markets by retailers.
Following the high profile campaign by farmers’ union the NFU, the coalition and the announcement by Arla and Wiseman to raise prices in the liquid milk market last week, the Wensleydale Creamery hopes to raise awareness of the needs of those farmers producing milk for the non liquid market.
David Hartley, MD of The Wensleydale Creamery, said: “We recognise the significant issues facing our dairy farmers today, including rising feed costs based on world commodity markets and the effects of an atrocious summer of weather here in the Yorkshire Dales and across the country as a whole.
“Much media attention has been focused in recent weeks on highlighting the increasing costs of producing milk and this has largely centered on liquid milk in a carton for the supermarket shelf.”
Source: Wensleydale Creamery
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