You can still order the IFCN Dairy Report 2013 via www.ifcndairy.org in Kiel. The Report gives an interesting overview on milk prices and production costs in Europe and worldwide.
Summary of the Dairy Report
In the Report you find milk and feed prices development over the years and the cost of milkproduction by world region and also over years. In the year 2013, over 50 countries participated in the annual comparison on costs of production and 95 countries participated in the country profile analysis.
Based on IFCN data, there were 122 million dairy farms and farming households on this planet in 2012. The average dairy farm size has 3 cows or buffaloes with an average milk yield of 2100 kg milk ECM/milk animal.
By using the “margin over compound feed costs”, it becomes visible how much of a threat dairy farmers face in a situation like in summer 2012, when milk prices fell and feed prices increased. Within 8 months, this situation changed considerably and dairy farm economics improved significantly.
For more information and to order: www.ifcndairy.org in Kiel
