A NOVEMBER farmgate milk price rise is on the cards for Cumbrian Arla members.

The farmers' co-operative has announced that the farmgate milk price will rise by 0.9p/litre for both conventional and organic milk from November 1.This takes its conventional milk manufacturing price to 30.66p/litre and the organic price to 39.02p/litre.These prices are based on collection every other day of milk in the top quality band.