The price of butter

I love Kerrygold and this week is went up in my local supermarket from 1.70 to 1.90!!!

I mentioned this in a thread months ago and was promptly shot down by others saying the price was unchanged. My dad loves his Lurpak . I know there are cheaper brands but it's one of his little pleasures so who am I to tell him to change?

Don't think the rising price of butter has anything to do with Brexit. That is just a red herring. It's the law of supply and demand and human greed that has caused this. Dairy farmers being paid less than it costs them to produce milk by the big supermarkets driving the prices down and down and forcing them out of business. The number of dairy farmers in the UK who have gone to the wall having spent the last few years trying to raise families on incomes under £10k pa is forcing prices up, plain and simple. When a commodity becomes scarce it becomes a premium product at a premium price. We, the consumer, have only ourselves to blame.

We buy butter when it's on offer and freeze it. President butter is lovely and also a Welsh one we can get in the supermarket, though that's never on offer.

Good idea chicken. Ooo-er - maybe we will now have a butter-rush!

I paid £1.23 for a pack at Lidl this week---that's the lowest price round here. I shall put a few packs in the freezer ready for the Christmas baking marathon.

I buy my butter mostly in Aldi. It was .79p per pack at the time of the brexit vote and is now £1.30. The latest rise was from £1.18 - £1.30. I don't know the individual prices of all my shopping but butter always stands out for some reason.

If my maths is correct and it may be wrong, since it's a very long time since I taught how to do percentages, I think it is a 200% rise.
It's shocking.
However, I think farmers were being paid a pittance for their products. No wonder many went out of business.

Only use one pack a week or thereabouts, still a cheap price for a good product though, and prices of butter do go up and down, had nobody noticed this?

Yes I had noticed the rise recently. I also don't understand what was going on with the bare hands thing either, surely that's a definite no no!

Yes JackyB thank you for this information.

Maw I think you are right - milk has felt uncomfortably cheap fir a very long time and now we are facing just one if the consequences.

During recent holidaying in Dorset, we bought butter from farm shops - top price we paid was £1.79, but it was the best I have ever tasted.

I pay £1.30 at the moment. We get through 3 packs a week as I bake cakes for local friends and DH and I are both more than partial to a bit on toast!

Well, let's see what Christmas brings!

Really we are expecting a lot of price hiking now because of Brexit =.

Thank you for pointing this out.
I noticed several months ago that butter which had been about 90p a lb was creeping up so I used to take advantage of "3 for £2" or whatever offer was on.
Now it is £1.40 a lb for the cheapest own brand and often more. I assumed it was yet another consequence of Brexit!
I don't blame the farmers for giving up when they couldn't get a decent price for milk (our local dairy farm first of all gave up daily deliveries, then went out of business altogether) but had not considered the knock-on effect. Presumably cheese will be affected too.
I fear this is the price we pay for CHEAP food