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Despite the seasonal decline in export sales, shipments of dairy products in 2022 remain the highest in recent years. World prices for dairy products fell for the fifth month in a row, due to a number of factors. The first is a sharp reduction in imports from the largest con...

Despite the difficult wartime conditions, industrial farms continue to work on animal productivity, quality and safety of raw milk. According to estimated data, in the three quarters of 2022, processing enterprises received 2,056.2 thousand tons of raw milk, which is 15.3% less than in 2021. It is important that the reduction of s...

At the end of the year, the raw milk market seems to be entering a «quiet period». The activation of foreign trade in summer and early autumn made it possible to visually accelerate the prices of milk in the domestic market. However, compared to European ones, they still remain a third lower. This is reported by Yana Linetska, the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers. However, since the beginning of November, due to the deterioration of the glo...

In the second half of October, purchase prices for milk from industrial farms continued their upward trend. This is reported by Yana Linetska, the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers. Price support was created by demand from processors, in particular cheese makers,...

The invaders are attacking the country's energy system. How does this affect the operation of the dairy farm and the cost of raw milk? Do milk producers have an action plan in case of force majeure? Replies the director of the company Dmytro Solomakha. At the farm of LLC Peremoha, member of Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine since 2015, are kept 800 cows, 20 tons of milk are sent for processing plants every day. A...

Ukraine annually feeds about 400 million people around the world. This means that the continuation of the «Grain Agreement» is important for all the countries in order to prevent a global food crisis. We must extend «grain corridor» functioning with the support of international partners. Therefore, on October 20, representatives of the associations Ukrainian Agri Council, Ukrainian Agribusiness Club and Ukrainian Grain Association signed a joint appeal to UN Secret...

In the first decade of October, purchase prices for milk from industrial farms showed the largest increase for the entire year in an attempt to catch up to market marks. But taking into account the excellent indicators of foreign trade activity in the previous months and the fact that a significant part of milk goes specifically for export, th...

Purchase prices for milk in the second half of September continued to catch up with the market and increased by almost 0.10 UAH. As of September 28, the average purchase price for Extra Grade milk increased by 0.16 UAH and amounted to 10.98 UAH/kg, excluding VAT. At the same time, contracts of 11.3...

As of September 15, the average purchase price for Extra Grade milk increased by 0.03 UAH and amounted to 10.82 UAH/kg, excluding VAT. Higher grade added 0.02 UAH to the price — up to 10.15 UAH/kg, and Grade I remained unchanged — 9.75 UAH. The weighted average price of three grades rose by 0.02 UAH — up to&nbs...

In August, Ukrainian raw milk market began to show signs of revival.  But dynamics were insignificant compared to the expectations associated with the sharp devaluation of the fixed exchange rate of hryvnia at the end of July. The situation can be explained by weak consumer demand and passivity of external buyers, as well as positive trends in supply of raw milk.  In recent months, in a number of regions, we have...