Four pints of milk to increase by 50% from £1.15 to £1.70

Price of dairy products set to SOAR: Four pints of milk to increase by 50% from £1.15 to £1.70 while pack of butter will rise from £1.55 to £2 as farmers face rocketing food and fuel costs

  • Surging costs from feed, fertiliser and fuel could cause major increase in prices
  • Crisis talks in Brussels last week over soaring costs and supply chain disruption
  • Cost of four pints of milk could rise from around £1.15 to between £1.60 and £1.70
  • Meanwhile a typical pack of butter could increase from £1.55 to more than £2 

The price of milk is to rise by 50 per cent and butter by 30 per cent amid a worsening cost of living crisis, it has been claimed.

Industry bosses fear that surging costs from feed, fertiliser and fuel will cause an increase in prices not seen in decades.

It comes as dairy farmers flew into Brussels last week for crisis talks over soaring costs and supply chain disruption.

The cost of four pints of milk will rise from around £1.15 to between £1.60 and £1.70, according to the UK’s leading adviser to dairy farmers Kite Consulting. 

A dairy farmer takes fresh milk from a storage tank at a dairy farm in Devon on March 25

Meanwhile a typical pack of butter could increase from £1.55 to more than £2. The war in Ukraine is also said to be impacting prices.

Michael Oakes, the dairy board chair of the National Farmers’ Union, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I was paying about £7,000 for an artic [articulated lorry] load of fertiliser, and this year it’s £28,000. 

‘It would have been a little bit less before Ukraine happened, but it made another big jump because we’d already seen higher gas prices, which have implications for fertiliser costs.’

UK dairy bosses have raised concerns over their costs to the Government but the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is said to be only in ‘listening mode’.

A dairy farmer tends to his herd in Devon on March 25. Industry bosses fear that surging costs from feed, fertiliser and fuel will cause an increase in prices not seen in decades

Yesterday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Chancellor Rishi Sunak will always be looking at what else he can do to support people, amid criticism of the Government’s handling of the cost-of-living crisis.

Mr Shapps insisted Mr Sunak has ‘already provided billions and billions of pounds to try to relieve the pressure’.

But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has lambasted the Government for what he claims are ‘pathetic’ attempts to ease the burden on people struggling with rising bills.

That sentiment was echoed by shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, who said yesterday he is ‘angry’ at the scale of the crisis, arguing that ministers have not done enough to tackle the problem.

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