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Milk price slide leaves UK dairy farmers on the brink

UK milk production rose 4.9% in 2025/26, causing prices to fall 25-30% below production costs, pressuring farmers with losses up to £187,500 annually, AHDB reports.

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Milk prices have fallen so sharply amid a glut in supply that dairy farmers Kelly and Ed Seaton expect to lose ​money this year from the 200 pedigree Holstein cows they rear in northwest England, where the weeks-old calves are just finding their feet.

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Reuters broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.
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