Australian milk season started out with three months of decreasing figures in a row; there is the risk to finish it with a 7-10% decrease (source: Rabobank) reaching the same levels of 2002/2003, when, due to one of the worst droughts in history, the country suffered a 8% reduction in
There has been a sharp drop in Chinese milk powder imports. In September of this year there was a significant drop in whole milk powder (-46.5%) compared to the same month in 2015, which ate into the positive performance of this year's January-September period (+19.6% in volume and +7.1% in
EU butter exports were booming in July this year; the month saw a volume increase of 18.1% compared to the previous year, thereby confirming the product's positive trend which registered a growth rate of 36% in the first seven months of the year as well as an increase in export
In times of crisis and price volatility the threat of import duties looms; this volatility is having a heavy impact on world milk production. Farmers who are seeing an unsustainable drop in the price of milk are blaming milk and dairy imports from countries where production costs are lower. No
Chinese imports are practically booming. During the month of July the following products increased in volume: infant formula (+63.8%), cheese (+36.6%), packaged milk (+27.8%), cream (+88%), butter (+33.6%) and whole milk powder (+4.9%). Whey powder and skimmed milk powder decreased however by 4.1% and 26.9% respectively.
These figures confirm the market’s
During the month of June this year China's dairy imports increased in volume compared to the same month the previous year, in particular whole milk powder (+120.2%), milk and cream (+43.9%), butter and cheese (+27.7%) and infant formula (+18.0%). The general growth trend during the first half of this year amounted
In May China's imports increased in volume compared to the same month the previous year with regard to milk and cream (+110.9%), baby milk (+32.8%), whole milk powder (+18.2%), whey powder (+10.2%) and cheese (+9.7%). Skimmed milk powder and butter decreased however by 13.2% and 18.2% respectively.
This confirms the growth
The number of cattle sheds in Italy has almost halved in ten years with a negative peak in 2015, a year which saw an all-time low of 33,000 farms compared to the 60,000 active ones in 2005. This is according to a study by Coldiretti entitled 'Italian Milk – a
Anyone speaking about the export situation being less than exceptional can't have read the data on Chinese imports, even if, it has to be said, the Asian giant slowed down in the fourth month of this year. Compared to April 2015 (CLAL data), in April this year the volume of
