Falls in the price of dairy products across the planet, affecting the economy of the primary sector of production
The index dairy published by the FAO (United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture) is a relative indicator (2002=100) of the evolution of food prices in the world. For the case of Cereals and Dairy products are nourished by the average of the values of sale FOB price of a basket of products that are representative for each sector. For the group of Cereals is the weighted average of the sale of Corn, Wheat and Rice, and for the Dairy group the weighted average of the Milk Powder, Skim Milk Powder, Butter and Cheese. For both groups, we observed a substantial drop in decreasing the tendency alsista that was taking (r2= 0,75) :
Obviously the impact on the price of milk has started to feel, and in the next chart, we look at the evolution of the price of milk to the producer for 4 of the 5 major exporters. The impact is greater in New Zealand where the balance of the surplus and exportable is extremely high (4700 litres of milk/capita). The united states, the European Union and Argentina (41, 39 and 62, respectively) have lower values:
Apart from this, in Argentina, the notable decrease in the volume of receipt industrial is manifesting itself be a stumbling-block to the low price of milk to the producer. The picture is not very favorable with a dry widespread, lower yields of maize for silage (highly variable from 25 to 50 tn MV/ha), the deterioration of pastures and delay in planting the verdeos winter.