The aim of this article is to present the situation of the milk and dairy products market in the EU countries and in the countries which are the world’s major milk producers in view of changes caused by the potential liberalisation of the global milk trade. The volume of trade in milk and...

During last eight years a lot of positive changes in the raw material base of Polish dairy industry has occurred. These changes concern the growth of milk production with the simultaneous reduction in the cow stock. In both analyzed periods of years 2000-2003 and 2004-2007 the milk purchase...

The aim of the paper was the attempt to assess the pork prices linkage between Polish, Danish and German markets. The research was based on monthly average pork price notations between January 1995 and May 2007. The analysis indicates that both short-term and long-term relationships between...

Milk quotas are a basic tool of the dairy market regime regulation in the EU. An abolishment of the quotas in 2015 will trigger considerable but positive changes in the market conditions. Limitation of supply, which in fact is a very strong intervention in the market fundamentals, has a negative...

Influence of the Polish integration with the European Union on the economic situation of sheep breeding farms is presented. The research data used in the article were taken from publications by GUS, IERiGŻ-PIB and directly from farms in the Podlasie region. The predominating product from sheep...

The aim of this paper was to show the impact of the European Union’s enlargement on the status of beef market in Poland. The analysis was performed on the basis of data on cattle population and production of cattle live weight for years 2004-2008, changes in the retail trade sector in years...

Problems of development of egg production in Belarus are considered. Dynamics of volume of egg production is considered for the period of 1995-2009. Results of production and sale of eggs by integrated (mass production) poultry farms are analyzed by means of a correlation method.