The dramatic “butterfly effect” for 5,340 Spanish goatherds

Published 2024년 7월 19일

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The Spanish goat milk sector is facing a crisis as prices are set to drop below the production cost, threatening the economic sustainability of small and medium-sized farms, according to Antonio Rodríguez, the Coordinator of Farmers and Livestock Organizations (COAG). This situation was highlighted to the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) and the Ministry of Agriculture. The decline in prices is due to an increase in supply from the Netherlands, where operating costs are lower. Despite COAG's efforts to understand the dairy industry's milk needs, no response has been provided. The war in Ukraine has further increased costs, leading to the closure of many breeding farms.
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The Coordinator of Farmers and Livestock Organizations (COAG) denounces the delicate situation faced by the 5,340 goat milk producers that exist today in our country. “After a time in which the sector has operated with some stability, since last November 2023 prices have begun to decline and again threaten to fall to thresholds incompatible with the economic sustainability of small and medium-sized farms.” has underlined the head of the COAG goat sector, Antonio Rodríguez. If in February 2024 the industry paid an average of 1,032 euros/liter for goat milk in Spain, it currently intends to drop to 0.85 euros/liter (both prices below the average cost of production in 2023 published by the Prices and Markets Observatory of the Junta de Andalucía, the autonomous community in which the majority of Spanish dairy goat farms are located and which has the highest delivery volumes). According to this study[1], the average production costs of an average Andalusian farm would range between ...
Source: Agrodigital

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