Meadow Foods to increase milk price by 2.15p per litre from January 2017

Meadow Foods is to increase its milk price by 2.15p per litre from January 1, 2017 – the processor’s seventh rise in a row.

Prices have now risen by 9.55p per litre since the height of July’s dairy crisis. From January, the company’s 500 farmer suppliers will receive an A price of 26.55p/litre.

The B price currently stands at 32p/litre.

Simon Chantler, executive chairman at Meadow Foods said: “We continue to remain focused on returning any milk price improvements as quickly as possible to our producers as we remain conscious that things remain difficult at this time,” said Simon Chantler, executive chairman at Meadow Foods.

“We will continue to watch the market closely and hope to continue to move our price forward as soon as we can.”

Meadow Foods is the UK’s largest independently owned dairy group and leading supplier of milk based dairy ingredients to the food industry. Meadow Foods currently handles more than 500 million litres of milk each year direct from over 550 farmer suppliers from across the North of England, Midlands and North & West Wales.