par Deconinck Bernard, le 29 Avril 2016 17h07

Fonterra reports strong growth in dairy imports by China, other markets

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

Breaking News ScreenNew Zealand-based Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s top dairy exporter, said it was seeing a strong growth in imports by China, Asia and Latin America, offering a glimmer of hope for dairy farmers hit hard by a global oversupply.

Around 85 percent of New Zealand dairy farmers are operating at a loss as prices have more than halved since early 2014 amid slower growth in China and a global surplus. But purchases by the key consumer have perked up this year on a drop in domestic stockpiles, analysts say.

Fonterra said on Thursday that its imports into China jumped 14 percent year-on-year in February, with significant increases across most of the major dairy categories. Imports for the 12 months to February rose 6 percent.

Earlier this week, Australia’s biggest dairy producer, Murray Goulburn Co-...

Fonterra reports strong growth in dairy imports by China, other markets

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

Breaking News ScreenNew Zealand-based Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s top dairy exporter, said it was seeing a strong growth in imports by China, Asia and Latin America, offering a glimmer of hope for dairy farmers hit hard by a global oversupply.

Around 85 percent of New Zealand dairy farmers are operating at a loss as prices have more than halved since early 2014 amid slower growth in China and a global surplus. But purchases by the key consumer have perked up this year on a drop in domestic stockpiles, analysts say.

Fonterra said on Thursday that its imports into China jumped 14 percent year-on-year in February, with significant increases across most of the major dairy categories. Imports for the 12 months to February rose 6 percent.

Earlier this week, Australia’s biggest dairy producer, Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co Ltd issued a profit warning, citing slow China sales, but analysts say the forecast could have been driven by issues specific to the company rather than the general milk market.

“There has been an improvement in imports into China,” said BNZ Senior Economist Doug Steel, adding that price action on the twice-monthly GlobalDairyTrade auction also suggests “some more buying as well”.

“Our feeling is the extreme excess we saw a year or so ago in stockpiles in China has been coming out. If that is true you would expect import demand would start matching domestic demand again. I think that’s sort of where we are at,” Steel added.

Fonterra said Latin American import volumes rose 10 percent in the 12 months to December while Asia import volumes – excluding China – were up 8 percent.

Milk production on the other hand has dropped as farmers respond to low prices, Fonterra said. The company’s New Zealand milk output fell 3.3 percent in the 10 months to March, while its Australia production dropped 1.4 percent.

Production for the rest of the New Zealand season ending May 31 “will continue to be influenced by changes in farming systems, such as decreased stocking rates and supplementary feeding, as farmers respond to the low milk price environment”, Fonterra said.

The rate of milk production growth in the European Union has stabilized, while easing in the other major exporting countries, Fonterra added.

Earlier this year, Fonterra lowered its forecast dairy payout to farmer shareholders, citing sluggish world demand. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, global milk supply is estimated to outstrip domestic consumption by 2 million tonnes this year.

Source: Reuters

   

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Benjy

le 01 Mai 2016 08h39

Et en français ça donne quoi?

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pipo

le 01 Mai 2016 09h36

que cela ira mieux un jour mais on ne sait pas quand mais avant que le trayeur en voit la couleur tous les intermédiaires en aurons profite et juste après une nouvelles baisse va se pointer et nous on serra encore passe a cote de la plus value de cette ouverture de marcher
il faut nous laisser qques signaux d espoir sinon ben il n y auras plus personnes pour faire la production de lait dans nos contrée

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tirelipimpon

le 01 Mai 2016 11h02

Chez les néozélandais c'est la cata. Pourtant eux savaient s'adapter au marché, ils n'étaient pas anesthésiés par la PAC et leur coopérative faisaient des profits record.
Voici le témoignage d'un éleveur qui dit " dans un rayon de trente kilomètres, il y a 17 fermes à vendre."
". Vous travaillez dur et voulez laisser quelque chose pour vos enfants quand vous allez, mais cela ne semble pas probable maintenant."
Voici la page que j'ai fait passé au traducteur


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lewallon

le 01 Mai 2016 11h10

J'ai entendu dire de mon marchand qu'il y a plus que d'habitude des vaches en provenance de Hollande pour l'abattoir ??????

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Benjy

le 01 Mai 2016 14h11

Faut arrêter de dormir le wallon... Y a longtemp que l on en parle... Quand je te dis que après le lait c est la viande...

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Milkawa

le 01 Mai 2016 15h13

@ Le wallon,
Vous n'avez qu'un seule marchand de bestiaux ? C'est peut-être pour vous faire paniquer, ( en même temps il n'a pas difficile si il est seule, pas de concurrence), car la réalité c'est que en Hollande la production augmente toujours, on parle de cette rumeur depuis plus d'un an, et la production augmente tout les mois, la réalité est qu'il y a des vaches de réformes en Hollande comme partout, a certaines périodes un peu plus et d'autres un peu moins. . .
Pour ce qui est du prix de la viande je pense que beaucoup de producteurs sont entrain de se faire baratiner par leurs marchands, le prix de la viande est bon sur le marché, il y a de la demande pas comme le marché du lait. . .

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