The production of November 2018 marked the first decline year-on-year so far this year, averaging -1% over November 2017.
The production of 2018 had started with a +9.4% in the first quarter with respect to 2017, basically because that quarter of 2017 had been very bad. Then the inter-annual differences were fading to, until October, copy the evolution of the 2017... a spring without seasonal peak of production. The cumulative, January to November averages +4.9% over the same period in 2017. With respect to October 2018 the fall of daily milk production was -3,7% more than double the 1.6% of the average variation in Nov/Oct of last 20 years. Seasonally, we observe a decline due to the lengthening of the days in lactation rodeo dairy, dried mass, loss of volume and quality of the pasture, environment, hottest and the presence of annoying insects for the cows. This year we add to this the effect of changes in diets that have been made in an attempt to mitigate the impact of the higher price of concentrates (rose +100% during 2018 while the milk price paid to the producer grew +60%). This has pressed on the individual production dropping it around -3% in dairy grazing.
To follow this trend for the year 2018 closed with 10.537 million litres of milk, a +4.4 per cent on 2017.
