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If you think New Zealand dairy farmers are struggling with a low milk payout, then spare a thought for their UK counterparts.

DAIRY PRICES are stabilising, but climbing off the market floor may take some time, says Rabobank.

IT’S AN exciting time for Irish and European dairy farmers. Having been constrained by European milk quotas since 1984, the shackles will finally be removed on April 1, 2015.

FOR THE first time in the cooperative’s history, Fonterra could be forced to clawback payout as dairy markets continue to slide.

THE TRADITIONALLY low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as New Zealand, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, says a Rabobank report.

MILK PACKAGING company Tetra Pak says demand for liquid dairy products is set to grow by 2.5% in the next three years.

DAIRY COMMODITY prices dipped overnight on Fonterra’s GlobalDairyTrade platform with the trade weighted index of all commodities down 1.6%.