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Guide to Milk Quotas and Appendices - English version
rpa (mq)1 - A Guide to Milk Quotas v13.0.pdf rpa (mq)1 - A Guide to Milk Quotas (Appendices) v13.0.pdf
Arweiniad i Gwotâu Llaeth

Guide to Milk Quotas and Appendices - Welsh Language
rpa (mq)1(w) - A Guide to Milk Quotas v13.0 (Welsh).pdf

rpa (mq)1(w) - A Guide to Milk Quotas (Appendices) v13.0 (Welsh).pdf

The Guide to Milk Quotas is a large document and may take some time to download.



Milk Quotas Purchaser's Handbook
Purchaser's Handbook

(January 2010 Version 2.0)

mq161 v3.0 may 2013.pdf



Approved Purchasers List.
Amendment Sheet (edit list) June 2013.pdf
UK Monthly Milk Production Statistics receipt and publication dates for the 2012-13 quota year.

UK Monthly Milk Prod Stats Publication Dates  2013-14.pdf

Laboratories
List of laboratories approved for butterfat testing
Ver 12.0 Sept 2012.
Approved BF Labs (Ver12.0 Sept 2012).pdf
Brucella & EBL Testing Information Sheet
Ver 6.0 june 2012.
Brucellosis and EBL Testing  V6  June 2012.pdf


Fact Sheets
These are links to the fact sheets in the Guidance section


Butterfat Fact Sheet
Declaring Deliveries Fact Sheet
Milk Haulage Fact Sheet
Milk Sampling Fact Sheet
Calculations and Formulae Fact Sheet
Purchaser Obligations Fact Sheet
Fact Sheets Booklet



Leaflets
Record Keeping
mq131 v13.0 may 2013.pdf
Cadw Cofnodion

(Record Keeping, Welsh language version)
mq131cy v12.0 may 2013.pdf

Calculators For Producers
Butterfat Calculator.xls


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Calculators For Purchasers
These two spreadsheets will calculate the delivery figures and average butterfat content figures that are needed for the MQ/12 (monthly) and MQ/13 (annual) returns.

These are new versions of the Purchaser Delivery Calculator – August 2012


This calculator is for purchasers with a single supplying producer:

Purchaser Delivery Calc (single) v6.0 Aug 2012.xls

This calculator is for purchasers with up to eight supplying producers with a single bulk tank, plus up to two producers with twin tanks:

Purchaser Delivery Calc (multi) v7.0 Aug 2012.xls

Traders can contact Julie Rookes on 01392 266111 if they have any questions

Page published: 10 June 2013