News

• Over three quarters of consumers confused by food labels
• Nearly two thirds don’t think milk safe to drink once date has passed
• Nearly a third unnecessarily bin food after ‘best before’ date
• Arla Foods will change labels on its milk and yogurts to help consumers reduce waste

Iconic butter brand, Lurpak, is to unveil the first block butter packaging innovation in 60 years with the launch of its new Butterbox.

Arla Foods UK reports half year revenue of £987m (€1.131bn) for 2019 thanks to decreased market volatility, continued success in delivering Arla’s transformation programme, a strong branded agenda and a cooperative mindset.

Arla Foods amba’s on account price for conventional and organic milk for September 2019 will once again remain unchanged at 30.22 pence per litre for conventional milk and 41.97 pence per litre for organic milk. 

In an industry first, Morrisons is to allow bull calves from its dairy suppliers participating in the Arla UK 360 programme into its beef supply chain. Dairy farmers supported by Morrisons to participate in Arla UK 360, will also be able to sell bull and beef calves into the calf rearing units of Buitelaar Production, Morrisons beef rearing partners.

3D imagery systems will be trialled by Arla UK 360 farmers to help them identify changes in each cow’s physical wellbeing, mobility and weight, before they are visible to the human eye.

Arla Foods amba’s on account price for conventional and organic milk for July 2019 will remain unchanged. However, this month it will be negatively impacted by a slight quarterly currency smoothing adjustment of 0.01 pence per litre. When applied to the UK manufacturing price this will reduce Arla’s pence per litre for conventional milk to 30.22 pence and 41.97 pence per litre for organic milk from 1 July for Arla’s farmer owners.

Today, Saturday 1st June, marks World Milk Day, but a new YouGov survey on behalf of Arla Foods UK shows there is widespread ‘confoodsion’ among UK consumers. One finding suggests two-thirds of all Brits wrongly think there is more than 10 per cent fat in whole milk, which in-fact contains less than four percent.

Arla Foods amba’s on account price for conventional and organic milk for June 2019 will remain unchanged, meaning Arla’s farmer-owners will continue to receive 30.23 pence for a UK manufacturing litre for conventional milk and 41.98 pence per litre for organic milk.

Arla Foods amba’s on account price for conventional and organic milk will remain the same for May 2019. This hold meansMay’s price for the UK manufacturing litre for conventional milk will continue at 30.23 pence and the organic price per litre remains 41.98 pence, for Arla’s farmer owners.

Arla Foods amba’s on account price for conventional milk price will remain the same for April 2019. However, this month it will be negatively impacted by a quarterly adjustment in the currency smoothing mechanism of 0.01pence per litre from 1 April 2019. When applied to the UK manufacturing price this will reduce Arla’s pence per litre to 30.23 pence for farmer owners.