The processor outlook for 2025's dairy markets is largely positive. \ Philip Doyle
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The chief executive of Lakeland Dairies Colin Kelly has said that the co-op expects “positive” dairy markets will deliver a base milk price of between 44.72c/l to 46.15c/l (excluding VAT) at peak supply in 2025.
The CEO put the price impact of a rebound in butter markets at between 1c/l and 1.5c/l higher than his peak milk price outlook would have been four weeks ago.
“That is a little bit lower than the price that is being paid, which can be sustained for a couple of months, but the crucial thing is when you get out into peak, I would be more positive on the market than I was four weeks ago,” Kelly told a Cavan IFA meeting on Tuesday.
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The co-op’s milk flows ended last year 1.6% down on the year previous, after an “extremely strong back end to the year” that saw milk deliveries up “25% or 30%” on a weekly basis with the same weeks in 2023.
Kelly stated that the co-op’s profitability figures ran in line with 2022, “if not ahead of it”.
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The chief executive of Lakeland Dairies Colin Kelly has said that the co-op expects “positive” dairy markets will deliver a base milk price of between 44.72c/l to 46.15c/l (excluding VAT) at peak supply in 2025.
The CEO put the price impact of a rebound in butter markets at between 1c/l and 1.5c/l higher than his peak milk price outlook would have been four weeks ago.
“That is a little bit lower than the price that is being paid, which can be sustained for a couple of months, but the crucial thing is when you get out into peak, I would be more positive on the market than I was four weeks ago,” Kelly told a Cavan IFA meeting on Tuesday.
The co-op’s milk flows ended last year 1.6% down on the year previous, after an “extremely strong back end to the year” that saw milk deliveries up “25% or 30%” on a weekly basis with the same weeks in 2023.
Kelly stated that the co-op’s profitability figures ran in line with 2022, “if not ahead of it”.
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