18.09.2025 10:12
The National Milk Council has increased the reference price of raw milk from 18.35 TL to 19.60 TL, effective from October 1, 2025. While there has been a 6.8% increase in the recommended selling price, the Association of All Milk, Meat, and Breeding Cattle Producers had requested that the price be raised to 21 TL.
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The National Milk Council (USK) has increased the reference price of raw milk. The price per liter, which was 18.35 TL, has been set at 19.60 TL with an increase of 1.25 TL, effective from October 1, 2025. Thus, a 6.8% increase in the recommended selling price has occurred.
A REQUEST TO RAISE IT TO 21 TL HAD BEEN MADE
On the other hand, the Association of All Milk, Meat, and Breeding Cattle Producers (TÜSEDAD) had requested that the price be raised to 21 TL.
"THE FIGURE HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY UNANIMOUS VOTE"
In a statement made at the USK Board of Directors meeting on September 17, 2025, it was stated: "Effective from October 1, 2025, the recommended selling price of raw cow's milk with 3.6% fat and 3.2% protein content has been unanimously determined to be 19.60 TL, net to the producer per liter (excluding raw milk support).
If cooling, transportation, and other current expenses are covered by the producer, these expenses will be paid to the producer in addition. A difference of +29 kuruş will be applied for each increment (0.1 change) in the referenced fat and protein ratios. The recommended selling price of raw cow's milk will be re-evaluated in the December 2025 period."
PRODUCERS ARE REACTING
On the other hand, Mehmet Özkurnaz, President of the Union of Environmental Villages Development and Other Agricultural Cooperatives (TARIM KOOP), stated that their expectations were 24 TL, describing the announcement of the price as 19.60 TL as a "victimization."
Özkurnaz said, "USK has no right to victimise the producer. A joint effort with the milk industry is necessary in this regard. Our industrialists should not implement low price policies that put our producers in a difficult situation. The greatest responsibility for the sustainability of the livestock sector falls on USK and the industrialists," he said.
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