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Price of milk in the UK from 1990 to 2019, both each month and the two-year average. Values are in 2019 prices [1] In Europe, UK milk production is third after France & Germany and is around the tenth highest in the world. There are around 12,000 dairy farms in the UK. [2] Around 14 billion litres of milk are commercially produced in the UK ...
Here are some of the key statistics in the 2024 UK Food Security Report, which has been published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The UK in 2023 sourced 58% of its ...
A milk quota or dairy produce quota [1] was a historical measure used by the United Kingdom government to intervene in agriculture. Originally introduced to reflect the agricultural policies of the European Economic Community, the quota's purpose was to bring rising milk production under control. Milk quotas were attached to land holdings and ...
In 2011, earnings were £30,900 per full-time person, which represented an increase of 24% from 2010 values in real terms. This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996.
The following article lists the world's largest producers of milk. Global milk production has increased rapidly over the past 50 years. According to Our World in Data, global milk production has nearly tripled since 1961, reaching around 930 million tonnes in 2022.
Arla Aylesbury is the largest dairy in the UK; at opening it was the world's biggest dairy, [1] processing over 1.75 billion pints (1 billion litres) of milk per year, around 10% of the milk in the UK. It is owned by Arla Foods UK which is a subsidiary of Arla Foods, a large producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.
Dairy products companies of the United Kingdom (1 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Dairy farming in the United Kingdom" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The number of horses for agricultural purposes are not mentioned in the statistics, but there were 290,000 dairy cows, 214,000 other cattle, 28,400 pigs and 9,739,000 sheep in the country. There were also 945 arable and horticultural holdings, 1,753 dairy farms, 12,650 beef and sheep farms, 95 specialist pig units and 426 specialist poultry units.