Report 11 – Released on March 14, 2019

WESTERN OVERVIEW: Early reporting of milk production in Germany and France, the two largest EU milk proders, has been higher than the previous year during the past two weeks. Conditions are favorable to continued strong milk production in coming weeks.

EU cheese production for 2018, 9.3 million MT, was 0.4 percent higher than 2017 according to Eurostat. December 2018 production was 0.2 percent higher than December 2017.

CHEESE PRODUCTION PERCENTAGE CHANGE
     2018/2017

     COUNTRY      YTD
     Germany      +1.5
     France       -1.0
     Italy        -2.5
     Netherlands  +0.7

EU cheese exports during 2018, 833,000 MT, increased 0.5 percent from 2017 according to Eurostat. 
The table below sows metric tons and percentage change for some top destinations.

     EU CHEESE EXPORTS ± TOP 3 DESTINATIONS
     Metric Tons 2018
     Percent change 2018/2017

     DESTINATION      MT        PERCENT CHANGE

     United States    133,539    -5.1
     Japan            106,656   +12.5
     Switzerland       61,645    +2.4

EASTERN OVERVIEW:

Poland was among the top five cheese production countries in 2018, according to Eucolait. Cheese production, 865,230 MT, increased 1.9 percent from 2018. December 2018 production increased 0.5 percent from December 2017. Slovakia registered one of the largest cheese production increases during 2018, 5.9 percent, producing 37,660 MT.

Information for the period March 4 – 15, 2019, issued biweekly

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