Global Dairy Trade has not been setting, but – let’s say benchmarking the worldwide prices for dairy commodities for almost a decade. From a relative small start with only Fonterra behind it selling WMP only, Global Dairy Trade has developed into a platform that trades eight commodity items from handful of manufacturers that belong quite […]
It is worthwhile to note that organic milk was hardly affected by the recent milk market crisis. Despite a radical decrease of global milk prices, the prices for organic milk did not really suffer, both on farm and retail level. Maybe the organic sector has its own rules and mechanisms. Maybe it was just a […]
What’s in store for 2017, price-wise? If I knew, I’d become a rich man soon. But one thing is certain: looking at prices, margins and profit, 2017 can only get better for most of the dairy companies and dairy farmers. With the exception of the private and multinational milk processors for whom the past two […]
According to the IFCN, the world milk price has increased by about 50 percent in the four months since May to an average of 33.7 US cent per kilogram. But dairy farmers all over the globe seem not to have taken notice of this development. Instead, at least in good old Europe, a great many […]
CETA, the little sister of TTIP, might finally be undersigned this autumn. While other sectors of the economy might benefit from the agreement between the Canadians and the Europeans, the advantages for the EU dairy sector will be limited. And in terms of milk exports, there isn’t much to gain for Canadian farmers anyway. The […]
There is a number of serious consequences that Great Britain’s exit from the European Union might cause. Now that we have had a few weeks to think it all over, it seems that it will be British dairy farmers who will be the biggest sufferers from the so-called Brexit. The EU will, of course, lose […]
Some market analysts think that the milk market has already reached the bottom of the current downturn in the milk cycle. This loop of milk delivery amounts and prices seems to take about 3 to 3.5 years from top to down and vice versa, as much as can be deduced from the price curves seen […]
