Dairy farming around the world

摘要

Dr Torsten Hemme is the leader of the IFCN Dairy Network, a scientific association between farm economists in over 30 countries, which have analysed dairy farms in 34 countries. At the recent 27th IDF Congress that took place in Shanghai, he addressedthe following 12 questions. The simple answer is yes. Dairy farms and the families behind them are most affected by the milk price and the feed prices. The most important factor, the milk price, is determined on the one hand by the local supply and demand of milk and on the other hand by the world markets for dairy prod-ucts.To make it simple, we can say that the maximum milk price a milk processor can pay to his suppliers is determined by the world market price for milk plus the tariff applied in thecountry. For example, in the EU, the upper price bound in 2004 was around 35 per EUR 100kg milk.