The average UK farmgate price in May stood at €32.36/100kg (24.09ppl), which was the fifth highest price of any nation in the EU15 after Greece, Finland, Italy and Austria.
The EU15 weighted average price stood at €30.98/100kg (23.06ppl) in May, €0.76/100kg (2.4%) down on April, and was €7.23/100kg (18.9%) lower than the May 2014 average.
Looking at the top-five milk producing countries for this month (Germany, France, UK, Netherlands and Italy), the average May price was €31.72/100kg which was a €0.65/100kg (2.0%) decrease compared with the previous month.