How the price paid for a litre of milk compares
West
Yorkshire
–13%
Suffolk
–15%
Essex
–19%
Berkshire
–31%
Average retail price
58p
Farmgate price
23.6p
75%
2014
1.84 million cows in UK
1995
35,741
2014
13,815
Berkshire has seen the biggest fall in dairy farms over the past year
The number of people buying a single pint of milk has fallen by three-quarters since 2001
The number of diary cows in the UK has increased in the past year by more than 59,000 – the first year-on-year increase since 2005
Almost two in three dairy farms in the UK have closed over the past two decades
How the price paid for a litre of milk compares
West
Yorkshire
–13%
Suffolk
–15%
Essex
–19%
Berkshire
–31%
Average retail price
58p
Farmgate price
23.6p
75%
2014
1.84 million cows in UK
1995
35,741
2014
13,815
Berkshire has seen the biggest fall in dairy farms over the past year
The number of people buying a single pint of milk has fallen by three-quarters since 2001
The number of diary cows in the UK has increased in the past year by more than 59,000 – the first year-on-year increase since 2005
Almost two in three dairy farms in the UK have closed over the past two decades
How the price paid for a litre of milk compares
West
Yorkshire
–13%
Suffolk
–15%
Essex
–19%
Berkshire
–31%
Average retail price
58p
Farmgate price
23.6p
75%
2014
1.84 million cows in UK
1995
35,741
2014
13,815
Berkshire has seen the biggest fall in dairy farms over the past year
The number of people buying a single pint of milk has fallen by three-quarters since 2001
The number of diary cows in the UK has increased in the past year by more than 59,000 – the first year-on-year increase since 2005
Almost two in three dairy farms in the UK have closed over the past two decades