Promar Milkminder dairy costings

Updated 31 October 2024

This data is supplied on a national basis by Promar International, through its Milkminder dairy management tool. It looks at monthly averages on a national basis, annual rolling averages, as well feed costs and margins over purchased feed (MOPF).

Monthly averages		Units	Aug-24	Aug-23	Change	% Change
Stock	Cows in herd	head	219	214	5	2.4%
	Cows in milk	head	179	176	2	1.3%
	% Cows in milk	%	81.48	82.34	-0.86
Milk production and prices	Total milk produced	litres	143,256	138,521	4,736	3.4%
	Yield per cow in milk	litres/day	25.85	25.33	0.52	2.0%
	Yield from grazed forage	litres/day	4.92	6.18	-1.26	-20.4%
	Yield from all forage	litres/day	7.05	8.09	-1.04	-12.9%
	Milk price	ppl	41.05	35.59	5.46	15.4%
Feed	Total milk value	£	58,812	49,300	9,512	19.3%
	Concentrate use	kg/litre	0.34	0.32	0.02	5.2%
	Concentrate price	£/tonne	296	338	-41	-12.3%
	Feed cost	ppl	10.44	11.32	-0.87	-7.7%
Margins	Margin over purchased feed	ppl	30.61	24.27	6.34	26.1%
Margins	Margin over purchased feed	£/cow	200	157	43	27.3%

2024_08_2_Milk yield and milk from forage graph.

2024_08_3_Margins over purchased feed costs graph.

Additional information

While the sample size for this data is relatively large, please bear in mind that it does not necessarily reflect the trends and performance of UK dairy herds. Retrospective adjustments to the data may also occur.

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