UK milk prices - the key numbers

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