As shown in Table B, Lakeland and Strathroy paid the highest price for good and average quality milk in June .

The parameters for good, average, and below average quality milk are shown on Table 1 opposite.

On good quality milk, the price paid across all processors averaged 27.42p/l in June, which is down slightly by 0.02p/l on the May price.

Lakeland paid the highest price for good-quality milk in June, boosted by its 1p/l super hygiene bonus on milk below 10 TBC and 100 SCC.

Glanbia Milk and Fivemiletown are in joint second place on 27.5p/l, followed by Glanbia Cheese on 27.48p/l.

The Magheralin based company, despite paying from the lowest base price, had a 0.65p/l litre volume bonus and 0.4p/l mozzarella bonus to be added in. The mozzarella bonus is paid on milk produced above 4% butterfat and 3.2% protein, with TBC below 20 and SCC under 200.

Strathroy

Strathroy tops the June league on average quality milk, with an alternate day price of 26.05p/l, narrowly edging out Lakeland in second place on 26.02p/l.

Glanbia Milk / Fivemiletown are in joint third place on 25.97p/l, with Dale Farm and Glanbia Cheese tied in fifth place on 25.78p/l, and Aurivo coming in last.

Rolling 12-month price

Table C shows the rolling 12-month price paid by each processor across good, average and below average quality milk.

Dale Farm remains on top of the rolling league tables for good and average quality milk, but the gap to its competitors continues to close.

For good quality milk, Dale Farm has paid a 12-month price of 29.54p/l to finish just 0.02p/l ahead of Lakeland in second place.

Glanbia Cheese moves up one place and finishes in third position for June, overtaking Aurivo, with the west of Ireland processor slipping to fourth.

Average quality

Moving to average quality milk, it is a very close call for the top position. Dale Farm remain in first place with a rolling price of 28.23p/l. However, the co-op finished just 0.01p/l ahead of Glanbia Cheese in second place.

Aurivo hold third position, Lakeland is in fourth, with Glanbia Milk/Fivemiletown and Strathroy rounding out the table.

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