The latest release from Defra on milk used by dairies in England and Wales tells us that the intake of raw whole milk was 813m litres, a 5.6% increase on April 2010.
The milk was used for a range of liquid milk and milk products including 346m litres of whole milk and 102m litres of skim milk used for liquid milk and 172m litres of whole milk and 24m litres of skim milk used for cheese production. Milk used in yogurt production was included as part of the 29,434,000 litres of whole milk used to produce yogurt, condensed milk and other dairy products. Over 97m litres of skim milk and nearly 2m litres of cream were also used in the production of yogurt.
The total separated from the total intake for skim milk and cream was 237,891,000 litres leaving the total available 575,471,000 litres.
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