Müller to offer farmers extra cash for improving herd health
Müller Milk & Ingredients is to offer its farmers a 0.5p per litre premium next year if they fulfil additional requirements based on improving herd health.
Members of the dairy giant’s 1,700-strong Müller Direct producer group will need to sign up to the supplier’s farm insight programme – an on-farm health and welfare assessment – to qualify for the premium, which would be worth £10,000 to a two million litre-per-year milk producer.
They will also need to sign up to The Müller Direct Antibiotic Programme – which aims to manage and reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics – and the National Johne’s Management Plan, which aims to control and eradicate Johne’s, a chronic disease which affects cattle.
The premium would help Müller’s farmers “build better, more sustainable businesses, securing long-term success and benefiting the dairy supply chain as a whole”, said its milk supply director Rob Hutchison.
Source: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/buying-and-supplying/sourcing/mller-to-offer-extra-cash-to-farmers-for-improving-herd-health/574000.article


