Ukraine: in the first half of the year SMP production increased by 17%
The season for the production of milk powder is being over, the demand for it is as hign as before. – INFAGRO
The season for the production of milk powder is being over, the demand for it is as hign as before. – INFAGRO
Ukrainian manufacturers of SMP are no longer eager to sell the powder even for 1900 USD/t, although not so far ago they sold it even for as low as 1800 USD/t. Whole milk powder is also sold well. – INFAGRO
The drying season in Ukraine is almost over. Several dairies still remain in operation, the ones that use raw milk produced by rural households keeing cows. The price of this milk has not particularly risen since summer. – INFAGRO
There is no significant growth of dairy exports. Export prices remain low and sales of many dairy products are falling both because of unattractive prices and because of a seasonql decrease of dairy production. – INFAGRO
It seems that at the beginning of the new year the global milk market will not tumble into chaos – at least in the forseeable future. Milk volumes in New Zealand are down, those in Australia are up but can’t make the neighbours’ decline even. The EU has been booking an almost stable milk production […]
Although after a fairly long lull in the world dairy market some recovery can be observed, it is still too early to talk about fundamental changes. In Oceania, where production is still seasonally active now, prices have strengthened. But this happened not because of improvement of the market situation, but because of the expected worse […]
In about four weeks’ time, the EU intervention program for Skimmed Milk Powder will end and it is doubtful the public intervention period will be extended as farm gate prices for June 2017, as reported by LTO, were in average € 33,69/100 kgs compared to € 25,14/1000 kgs in the same month last year. An […]
Earlier, Ukraine has been among the major players in the global dairy market. But during 2005-2010 there occured a substantial reduction in milk production and dairies got reoriented to produce more profitable dairy produce. Then milk powder production in the country and milk powder exports […]
The spring surplus of milk makes Ukrainian dairy processors, albeit reluctantly, but increase drying of milk. The reason for the lack of enthusiasm is evident: firstly, the price for this product is too low, and secondly – raw milk is still not so cheap to profitably manufacture powdered milk. – INFAGRO
In 2016 Ukraine began using quotas for duty-free export of dairy products exporting dairy cream products (24.4% of quota used). Ukraine has also begun to export dried milk (30%) and butter (46%).