The 2025 UK Dairy Story

The story for many UK dairy farms is a tough read this year.

• Feed and inputs remain expensive — concentrate and supplementary feeds only eased ~3% from 2024 levels, meaning we are still well above the cost base of the previous two years (AHDB).

• Forage prices have surged — poor 2025 grass growth and reduced yields have pushed some bulk feed prices up around 40–46% year-on-year, with farmers holding tighter stocks for winter.

• Milk price has softened — from peaks around 50p/L, UK averages settled in the mid-40s p/L through late summer, with AHDB analysis warning of further downward pressure as production rises and commodity returns weaken.

That’s a cost–price squeeze approaching 20%: more expensive feed and forage on one side, lower returns per litre on the other — all while winter demand is building.

But there is good news: the losses can be stopped.

Every tonne of silage in your clamp is a high-value feed reserve. Protecting it is often the quickest and most realistic way to defend margins when markets don’t co-operate.

Reducing spoilage by even 10–20% simply by keeping oxygen out  can recover feed you’ve already paid to grow and effectively offset falling milk price by reducing bought-in feed costs and maintaining ration stability.

💡 Passion Ag high-performance oxygen-barrier films lock out air, prevent heating, and protect the most vulnerable layers of your clamp, preserving more usable feed right through to feed-out.
That’s silage you already own, nutrition your cows can convert, and margin you don’t have to lose.

Tight margins can’t always be avoided — but they can be defended.