{"id":20415,"date":"2024-05-28T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=20415"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:35:36","slug":"what-price-milk-europes-dairy-farmers-tour-brussels-with-plastic-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2024\/05\/28\/what-price-milk-europes-dairy-farmers-tour-brussels-with-plastic-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"What price milk? Europe\u2019s dairy farmers tour Brussels with plastic cows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dairy farmers on May 27, 2024 wheeled plaster cows across the European Union (EU)\u2019s capital Brussels, demanding fair milk rates. <\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 100 protesters paraded before key EU offices demanding a legislation eradicating all milk product prices below production expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farmers were also drumming up support for an EU version of Spain\u2019s recent \u201cunfair commercial practices\u201d<\/u><\/a>act. Kjartan Poulsen who heads the European Milk Board briefed Euronews that Spain\u2019s law prohibits any commodity price below production costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He speculated that while production costs vary from nation to nation, they nevertheless show a widening gap, especially in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italy\u2019s Price Context<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Italy\u2019<\/u><\/a>s production costs, apparently exceed the selling price by 15 Euro cents ($0.16), which means that milk producers sell at a loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Roberto Cavaliere of the Po Valley Milk Producers\u2019 Association, Italy\u2019s milk companies spend \u201c60 to 65 cents\u201d to produce a liter of milk but earn only \u201c50 cents\u201d a liter. He added that this state of affairs has been in place for the past 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, 90,000 milk-producing firms in Italy had quit trade by 2023 from some 110,000 firms in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical EU Milk Product Prices Trace Downward Trend<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile in the rest of Europe, prices for milk products have either remained unchanged in 2024 or decreased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading the decrease is Swiss hard cheese (Emmental). It dropped from the 690 Euro ($749.89) per 100-liter rate of January 1, 2023 to\u00a0607.1 Euro\u00a0<\/u><\/a>($659.80) on May 6, 2024. \u00a0The price was 650 Euro ($706.42) per 100 liters at a near similar time on May 8, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milk prices, on the other hand, remained \u201csteady\u201d as 2023\u2019s on May 6, 2024 at 46.34 Euro ($50.36) per 100 liters.  This was an 8% <\/u><\/a>dip from the 2023 margin but analysts still hold the decrease as insignificant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheese<\/u><\/a> also fared ill with an 8.5% price decrease by May 6, 2024 in comparison with early May 2023. This time round, the decrease owes to improving world supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butter reversed fortunes at\u00a0538.8 Euro\u00a0<\/u><\/a>\u00a0($585.7) per 100 kg on May 6, 2024, above 464.7 Euro ($505.04) of May 8, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, low demand for milk products including skimmed milk and rising global production are partially responsible for EU\u2019s dairy farmers\u2019 price loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EU Milk Statistics<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How much milk do Europeans take per person per year?<\/em>\u00a0Europe (27 nations) has one of the world\u2019s highest milk consumption per capita at\u00a053.4\u00a0<\/u><\/a>liters in 2022.\u00a0Which country in Europe drinks most milk?\u00a0<\/em>In 2021, Denmark had the highest milk consumption per capita in Europe and the second in the world at 402.13<\/u><\/a>\u00a0liters, followed by Montenegro at 396.34 liters. Only Malaysia in Asia had a higher consumption rate than the above.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many dairy cows does the European Union have?<\/em> In 2023, the EU had the second highest dairy herd in the world after India, at 20 million<\/u><\/a> heads. Which country in the EU has the most expensive whole milk?<\/em> Sweden had the most expensive milk price in Europe in 2023 at $2<\/u><\/a> (1.84 Euro) per liter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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