After the milk quota removal in 2015, the Irish dairy industry has expanded dramatically. Various economic, social and environmental considerations are part of farmer's choice to invest and to expand. This study evaluates selected factors contributing to recent dairy farmer's investment...

This report evaluates the challenges, opportunities and medium term prospects for the EU dairy sector in light of milk quota abolition. It focuses on structural change in the sector, the dynamics of the dairy market, the need for environmental resilience and rural sustainability. The specific...

This article presents the milk market in the period 2017-2021 highlighting aspects regarding the evolution of the herd (cows), milk production, price, consumption, import, export, market characteristics, the main dairy producers in Romania, but also a series of conclusions that are the basis of...

In the United States, over 70% of milk production is priced under Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs). A primary purpose of FMMOs is to facilitate orderly allocation of milk as a limited, perishable resource among alternative uses. Fundamental to FMMOs are the regulatory prices applicable to...

Agricultural value chains, particularly in the developing world, have been going through drastic changes over the past decades. Differences in world market participation and access to value chain technologies might however have resulted in uneven experiences across countries. In this paper, we...

In Switzerland, there are separated value chains for dairy and cheese products, which differ in terms of industry concentration, value chain governance, and product characteristics. We analyze how milk prices are passed on along these different value chains. Using detailed price data on farm...

Diese Dissertation umfasst drei Studien zu Preistransmission und Marktintegration in Schweizer Agrar- und Lebensmittelmärkten. Der Artikel "Protecting the Swiss milk market from foreign price shocks: Public border protection vs. quality differentiation" analysiert räumliche oder horizontale...

The goal of our study is to analyze the associations between Finnish and global milk markets and use the results to predict the Finnish milk price. We develop a theoretical framework of the factors affecting the milk price in Finland and test the predictive power within Vector Autoregressive...

Als Reaktion auf den starken Preisverfall auf den internationalen und nationalen Milchmärkten wurden von der EU-Kommission im September 2016 zwei Hilfsmaßnahmen beschlossen und umgesetzt. Im Rahmen des EU-Milchmengenverringerungsprogramms wurde Milcherzeugern eine Beihilfe für die...

The article is devoted to a research on the development of the surplus on the self-financing of investments on farms specialising in milk production. The study used model farms built on the basis of FADN information on average production and economic parameters of average dairy farms. In order...

Im Zuge der weitgehenden Liberalisierung des europäischen Milchmarkts ist die Volatilität von Milchpreisen seit dem Jahr 2007 deutlich gestiegen. Das vorliegende Forschungsprojekt nimmt diese Entwicklung zum Ausgangspunkt, um die Frage nach der Eignung von Milchprodukt-Futures der European...

Both the world milk price and the world feed price have become more volatile during the last 7-8 years. The ability of dairy farmers to adapt quickly to these changing circumstances will be a key driver for future success, considering that feed is the major cost component in milk production and...