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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 ...
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.
The UK has about 73,000 goats, mostly as milk producers; this number is relatively small by EU standards. [Notes 1] Venison production in the UK is mainly from red deer, with a few fallow deer as well, but there are only about 300 venison-producing farms. As noted above, there are about 26,500 farms with chickens.
Rank Change in rank 2013/2007 Country Milk consumption 2013 (kg/capita/yr) [1] Milk consumption 2007 (kg/capita/yr) [2] 1 Finland 430.76 361.19 2 4 Montenegro 349.21 305.87
The UK has rarely been self-sufficient in terms of food supply. In 2023, the country was 54–60% self-sufficient in food. [4] [5] In 2022, the country produced enough sheep and milk to be self-sufficient, and almost enough poultry, eggs and cereals, but other foods, such as rice, tomatoes and exotic fruits, had to be imported. [6]
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. The most popular milk is cow milk, followed by buffalo milk, goat milk, sheep milk and camel milk.
The dairy industry is well-developed in more favourable parts of the country, [citation needed] livestock is raised in the upland areas, with the mountainous areas being used extensively for sheep farming. There are 1,600,000 hectares (4,000,000 acres) of farmland in Wales and eighty percent of the country is classified as being in a "Less ...
The company was formed as a raw milk trading business (milk broker) in 2002 with the merger of The Milk Group and Zenith Milk. [1]In 2004, DFoB became the third largest milk processor in the UK, processing over 1.35 billion litres of milk each year into 600 different dairy products, by purchasing Tyneside-based Associated Co-operative Creameries for £75 million from the Co-operative Group.