Report 33 – Released on August 13, 2020

AUSTRALIA:

It remains early in the new milk production season. Seasonally low milk production will be increasing in coming months. Dairy producers in Australia are increasingly scrambling traditional patterns of where their milk is sold. Recent dryness has resulted in more options for producers in Victoria to truck milk to New South Wales and Queensland. Another factor leading to the shifting patterns is that processors are willing to extend truck routes further to assure milk supplies. Processors are now required to publish contracts online so dairy producers can determine minimum prices being offered in assessing options for shipping their milk. That also has resulted in new milk sales patterns.

NEW ZEALAND:

June 2020 New Zealand milk solids reported by DCANZ, 20.3 million kg, are up 2.0 percent from June 2019 milk solids, 19.9 million kg. June 2020 milk production, 230 million MT, is up 1.8 percent from June 2019, 226 million MT.

June milk production is typically the lowest month of the year. Production generally trends up in July and then sharply increases in August, often more than quadrupling from July. Thus, the official June data is of little probative value in terms of the present. Some New Zealanders report that on the North Island, excellent weather had enhanced pasture growth. Calving is well underway. These conditions, if they continue, could be a positive for milk production this season.

  Information for the period August 3 - 14, 2020, issued biweekly

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