SalzburgMilch pays more in light of higher prices

Like other farmers, Austrian dairy farmers are affected by high inflation, as costs for energy and operating resources have risen sharply in recent months. SalzburgMilch dairy is helping its approximately 2,400 farmers in the region by passing on the price increases achieved in negotiations with retailers to the milk suppliers.

“Extraordinary circumstances also require extraordinary measures and quick action,” says SalzburgMilch’s managing director Andreas Gasteiger.

“The family-run, small-scale farms, which are so typical of SalzburgMilch, are currently being hit particularly hard by the generally sharply rising prices. That is why, as a milk processing company, we see it as our responsibility to support our dairy farmers and are raising the milk prices again. This has now become possible, because we were able to achieve price increases in intensive negotiations with our trading partners, which we can now pass on to our farmers.”

Since 1 July, the SalzburgMilch basic payment price for GMO-free milk was raised by €0.0475 net to €0.51 net per kg milk, which corresponds to €0.5763 cents gross per kilogram of milk.

“I would like to thank all our consumers for their loyalty to our SalzburgMilch products. Giving preference to local products, when shopping, has always been important and right, but in the face of this new crisis and the difficult situation, it is more important than ever. Because every reach for regional products secures the food supply in one’s own country and prevents dependencies, which we unfortunately have to experience in other areas,” adds Gasteiger.