Period: 5 – 16 August, 2019 In Australia there is a limited amount of hay available and many Producers are concerned that obtaining good quality hay will be difficult as the season progresses. Even with relatively low early milk season…
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The demand for Cheddar and WMP is very good [News Oceania n°16/2019]
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A higher milk price to encourage milk production in Australia [News Oceania n°15/2019]
Period: July 22 – August 2, 2019 In Australia competition among processors for milk has resulted in upward movement in milk pay prices for the new season. The higher price is intended to encourage more milk production and it includes…
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Fewer farms and higher yields per cow: the trends in the U.S.
The number of farms in the United States continues to shrink, while the farm size is becoming larger. The number of farms in the United States for 2018 is 2,029,200, down 12,800 farms from 2017 and down 70,100 from 2013.…
Buyers’ interest pushes prices upwards [News Oceania n°14/2019]
Period: July 8-19, 2019 In Australia, weather conditions are mixed. Southwest and northern areas are very wet following heavy rains. This limits new season hay availability. Parts of New South Wales and Gippsland are very dry and crops are struggling…
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EU and Italian dairy export keeps on improving in 2019
EU dairy export increased in January-Mary 2019 both in quantity (+8.4%) and in value (+8.8%), supported by a significant increase in May (+14.5% in value). Infant milk formula, mainly destined for China, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia, and Cheese, which…
Record soybean production forecast for Brazil in the new season
World production World Soybean production for the 2019-20 season, which will begin on October 1, 2019, is estimated at 347.04 Mio Tons, -4.4% from the previous season. Brazil is expected to overtake the United States as top Soybean producer, with…
Yili to take over Westland [News Oceania n°13/2019]
Period: June 24 – July 5, 2019 Australia milk production, in the month of May 2019, decreased by 13.6% compared to the same month of the previous year. The overall trend of the season, negative in all the States of…
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Lower temperatures and feed costs prompted Milk production in South America [News South America n°8/2019]
Period: June 10 – 21, 2019 During the last summer season high temperatures and constant flooding in several dairy basins kept milk output in Argentina and Uruguay below the previous year levels. Then starting from May the drier climate improved development and quality of…
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More Butter and WMP in storage [News Oceania n°12/2019]
Period: May 27 – June 21, 2019 In Australia, cooler weather and frost have moved into some areas. Dairy Producers secure hay and feed to last through the winter. Available hay supplies are especially tight in Southern and Western Australia.…
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US President Trump increasing import tariffs: would it be a crisis for Italian Cheeses? [Interview]
Attilio Zanetti, vice president of the European Dairy Association, the European federation based in Brussels that brings together all the European dairy associations of the EU Member States, the italian Assolatte included, confides his concerns to us about the commercial…
