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A sharp drop in Argentine milk production

Argentina
Published Mar 23, 2023

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In the month of February the volume produced in Argentina was 805 million liters of milk, this implies a value 15.7% below the previous month (-6.7% in the daily average) and 1.3% less than the same month of the previous year.

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As analyzed by the Observatory of the Argentine Dairy Chain, "normally, production in January falls 9%, this year (-7.3%) less product has fallen compared to a month of January 2022, which was atypical in how Production came and how it continued, due to the strong thermal stress suffered by the herd in that month of last year. Already in February the month-on-month drop is greater than the historical average since it falls 6.7% and normally it does so between 5 and 5.5% and surely this will be repeated in March due to the effects of drought and issues related to the economy”. And adds: “obviously the effects of the severe drought that affects most of the dairy basins and the incidence of high production costs (concentrates, among other inputs ...
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