Restoring the Organic Milk Premium

"WITH ‘conventional’ milk prices surging ahead, the current organic margin has been eaten into and the Organic Milk Suppliers’ Co-operative OMSCo admits that supplying the retail market demand is not going to get any easier.

But an October 1 price increase for producers, said sales and marketing director Richard Hampton, should restore the premium to “where we feel it ought to be”. He said it was still being finalised but should be in the region of 7-8ppl. And if conventional continued to move upwards, so organic would have to follow."

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