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Heat in Australia is generating wildfires, dust storms, power outages. Feed is getting harder to find, poorer quality and more expensive. Some dairy producers are having great difficulty getting enough water to cows. Australian seasonal milk production in the first 5 months of the dairy season 2018−19 is -4.9% from July-November 2017. In November there was a decrease of -7.8%, i...

Chinese dairy imports continue to grow: 2018 ended with an increase of +7.8% in volume and +14.5% in value. Regarding the political situation between Beijing and Washington, the tensions on tariffs slow down dairy exports from North America to China, with a decrease in milk equivalent th...

In contrast to the two previous years, production of casein is no longer profitable. And not only because of the winter season. The market is changing in favor of using skim milk to produce SMP, which, unlike casein, is more expensive. Comparison of the economy of production of SMP and casein shows that the price of the latter should be about 5700 USD/t. If importers do not revise their pricing pol...

1. Forecast of milk production The impact of prolonged drought in Northwest Europe in 2018 will have an impact on milk production, even in the first half of 2019. The volume of production...

Central and southeast Australia continue to suffer under intense temperatures, which in some areas reach 116°F (≃ 47°C). Cows and pastures are suffering and the disappointingly low milk production is crimping manufacturers' schedules. New Zealand milk production continues to be strong and improved +4.4% in December. Manufacturers are increasingly working to assure adequate low season carryover stocks are in ...

The National Statistics Committee of Belarus has already prepared some preliminary data of 2018 for dairy industry. According to official data, milk production in agricultural organizations, amounted 7.0 million tons, which is 0.7% more than in 2017. Based on these figures, production in all categories of milk producers will increase by only 0.3−0.4%. At the same time, Belarusian experts say that the dynamics may pos...

Exports of Ukrainian solid / semi-hard cheeses is declining. Last month, it was exported only 525 tons, which is 21% less than in December 2017. In general, cheese exports decreased by 11% over the year to 6.5 thousand tons. At&...

For the fourth consecutive semi-monthly trading session, global dairy prices were again up on the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction today. In the aggregate, prices climbed 4.2% on volume that approached 28,000 metric tons. Skim milk powder climbed 10.3% to $1.09/lb. This increase may be in part due to the European Union’s dwindling inventory of SMP stocks, now down 94% from its peak a few...

The beginning of every New Year is the time of traditional summing up of the previous year results and making plans for the next year. This is what people, companies, and industries do. Dairy industry does the same. What was the 2018 for Ukrainian dairy industry? In one word — «ordinary». The assessment is boring, but in the dairy industry, as in the economy of ...

It is still too early to sum up the year for production of dairy products as there is not all the data available, but we can confidently note the growth trend in production of fresh dairy products and cheeses. It is expected that production of powdered and condensed milk for the year will be less than last year. Even production of butter, contrary to forecasts, will be low...