dinderleat
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- Wells
In the uk?
6l of milk to 1kg of Mozzarella?
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6l of milk to 1kg of Mozzarella?
While that is a lot does anyone know the total world consumption to put these tonnages into context as 94000 tonnes sounds a lot but it may be a drop in the ocean overall.
No but that's about a1.5kg/year for each person in the UK (though much will be destined for export).
According to Statista, UK per capita cheese consumption is around 6 to 8kg/year.
- Location
- North Norfolk
The average Brit does not live on a cheesemaking dairy farm - I must consume 6-8 kg per month minimum.
And I can vouch that it’s very good having parted with some hard earned last year when touring the county
Bit of Googling …
Bigger cheese than I suspected with a global value (2023) of $37bn projected to rise to $64bn by 2031 with an annual rate of growth of 6.2%
Canada as a whole produces around 150,000 tonnes of mozzarella so that makes Leprino U.K. a decent effort IMO
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Makes arla look good announcing something like that with so much discontentment amongst the farming fraternity
frederick
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- south west
What other significant dairy processing investments have been made since Aylesbury in the UK.
Mona dairies but I don't know how much.
Apart from that it was probably Westbury nearly 20 years ago. Can't think how long ago Muller Bridgwater was but it was Wiseman's so a while ago.
So most other plants are gradual upgrades of legacy plants which doesn't allow the efficiency savings of new plants.
I am sure someone will come up with some obvious plants that I have missed.
Mona dairies but I don't know how much.
Apart from that it was probably Westbury nearly 20 years ago. Can't think how long ago Muller Bridgwater was but it was Wiseman's so a while ago.
So most other plants are gradual upgrades of legacy plants which doesn't allow the efficiency savings of new plants.
I am sure someone will come up with some obvious plants that I have missed.
farmer on a bike
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Quite a bit of variation on estimated sales from about $16bn in 2020 to $37bn in 2023 world wide with CAGR of 4 to 6% from different sources. The question is whether the growth is in price or volume or both. Interesting figures on Canada, since they produce 2/3 milk of the UK but more mozzarella with that figure for mozzarella being 30% of the total cheese make in Canada. all points to the fact that there is room for more mozzarella production both in the UK and Worldwide.
farmer on a bike
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Quite a bit of investment in small specialist dairy both ice cream and particularly cheese, but I cannot think of any really large scale investment other than those mentioned apart from some investment in whey processing. Arla also invested £25M to start processing lacto-free milk at Settle which has been a strong growth product and replaced imported product.
Don’t know for sure whether the growth is in price (be a large element though following covid) or volume although Leprino did point out quite a number of new customers last night often contracted to long term deals (over 5 years) with significant volumes now going in to the Middle East and now China
However I did read very recently that Dominoes are opening franchise after franchise in the U.K. at the moment with the aim to have >1600 stores by 2028 and £2bn of sales … so I would agree that there is room for more mozzarella - the world’s most popular cheese
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Reckon with all these updgraded/new factories that if we all culled 5-10% of our herd we would all be on £1 a litre at this rate
- Location
- North yorks
Arla’s stourton site was a complete greenfield site around 20 years ago, and will have had a fair bit of expansion since then, speciality creams and soft cheese were added after the closure of Northallerton. I think there is still an ongoing project to add extra storage silos and increase/streamline intake.
As a company they certainly have kept investing in the uk industry.
As a company they certainly have kept investing in the uk industry.
Cutting cow numbers would have no effect whatsoever as whether we like it or not we operate in or are influenced by at least a world market.
frederick
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- Location
- south west
With all this new stainless steel those will be the factories that survive in a world market where milk supply tightens in the UK because of their efficiency.
It will be the old less efficient legacy factories that will struggle to pay enough to retain a large enough milk pool.
Less efficient factories can only survive if they can make up for that inefficiency by paying less for their milk.
Had online shop arrived today has 5kg of cheddar and 1kg of soft cheese will last a fortnight and God knows how much yogurt, all great food to help with my diabetes control, that would be just for me too
Enry
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- Shropshire
50p a litre saw consumption drop…£1 a litre would decimate it…also getting rid of 5% of cows never seems to drop milk…
frederick
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- south west
Asked at my district meeting yesterday about arlas view of the red tractor review and what we need going forwards.
Not sure I got a great answer and also not sure arla will give feedback but don't we need their view to help respond with ours.
I'm no luddite I know we need farm assurance. I also understand that the supermarkets legally need our climate data to simply report their scope 3 emissions.
However if ever there was a time to re establish the farm assurance field it's now.
Why can't arla garden be our assurance rather than the duplication of red tractor.
I don't need a greener farm commitment because arla are already collecting that data and starting to monetise this.
A national GFC just sets to give the data a way free and undermine what many dairy businesses have done so far. Though beef sheep and arable have a long way to go to catch up with what the supermarkets need access to to meet their obligations.
So I want to respond to the red tractor review that as an arla farmer I don't need red tractor any more. But that claim is no good at all unless arla is also behind the farmers position and agrees it's dairy farmers no longer need red tractor because it's just a base and we are ahead of that base anyhow.
We have a once in 10-20 year option to impact how farm assurance affects us going forward.
If red tractor is simply left unchallenged we will be tied to it's duplication for a decade or more.
Not sure I got a great answer and also not sure arla will give feedback but don't we need their view to help respond with ours.
I'm no luddite I know we need farm assurance. I also understand that the supermarkets legally need our climate data to simply report their scope 3 emissions.
However if ever there was a time to re establish the farm assurance field it's now.
Why can't arla garden be our assurance rather than the duplication of red tractor.
I don't need a greener farm commitment because arla are already collecting that data and starting to monetise this.
A national GFC just sets to give the data a way free and undermine what many dairy businesses have done so far. Though beef sheep and arable have a long way to go to catch up with what the supermarkets need access to to meet their obligations.
So I want to respond to the red tractor review that as an arla farmer I don't need red tractor any more. But that claim is no good at all unless arla is also behind the farmers position and agrees it's dairy farmers no longer need red tractor because it's just a base and we are ahead of that base anyhow.
We have a once in 10-20 year option to impact how farm assurance affects us going forward.
If red tractor is simply left unchallenged we will be tied to it's duplication for a decade or more.