Milk Intake Down 1.5% On Year

The key results from the latest milk utilisation release from Defra says that the intake of raw milk in December 2010 was 784m litres, a decrease of 1.5% on December 2009. A total of 233m litres of milk was separated for skim milk (200m litres) and cream (33m litres) leaving a total of 550.9m litres of milk available for disposal as other dairy products. The amount used for the production of liquid milk was 341m litres of whole milk and 124m litres of skim milk. Cheese production accounted for 149m litres of whole milk and 22m litres of skim milk. Other disposals of the raw milk intake included powders, yogurt and condensed milk which accounted for 24.3m litres.