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Milk price increases suffer exhaustion

After a run of nine months of non-stop price increases by some milk buyers, the pace has slowed considerably to the point where mostly only milk buyers on time lags are left to announce changes

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Milk price increases suffer exhaustion

Following their €3c/kg increase for November, Arla Foods found another €1/kg increase for December to string eight monthly increases in a row. However, rather than being able to bask in the glory of...

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