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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.
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 ...
The UK currently produces about 54% of its domestic food consumption. [1] Agricultural activity occurs in most rural locations. It is concentrated in the drier east (for crops) and the wetter west (for livestock). There are 191,000 farm holdings, which vary widely in size. [2]
The farm currently farms just over 1,700. It is the largest independent cheese maker and milk processor in the UK, turning out over 17,000 tonnes [8] of cheddar. [9] The waste of cows and pigs are used to power the farm, rather than electricity from the national grid. It took 5 years to finish building the biogas plant. [10]
By the late 1980s Dairy Crest Foods made a quarter of all the cheese eaten in the UK. [6] The site was bought by the Milk Marketing Board in 1979; in 1980 the processing division was divested as the new company Dairy Crest. In 1993 Dairy Crest decided to make Davidstow its main cheese manufacturing site, and invest £6m. [7]
Arla is the largest supplier of fresh milk and cream in the United Kingdom, producing over 2.2 billion litres of milk per year. It produces two premium milk brands: Cravendale filtered milk, which undergoes a filtration process to remove bacteria before pasteurization; and Lactofree milk, from which lactose is removed, making it suitable for most lactose intolerant people.
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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.