Dairy Farmers struggling

The cost of producing a litre of milk is around 30 pence, yet farmers are receiving as little as 20 pence per litre at the farm gate.

Milk producers may have to wait for price recovery

Milk producers may have to wait until 2016 to see a revival in prices, US farm officials said, forecasting continued rises in output from New Zealand, the top exporting country, despite lower values.