The dramatic butterfly effect for 5,340 Spanish goatherds

Published 2024년 7월 18일

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The Spanish goat milk market is facing a crisis due to a surge in supply from the Netherlands, leading to a significant drop in prices, which is unsustainable for small and medium-sized farms. The situation has been brought to the attention of the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) and the Department of agriculture by the Coordinator of Farmers and Livestock Organizations (COAG). The decline in prices is coupled with increased costs due to the Ukraine conflict, resulting in the closure of many farms. The dairy industry is encouraged to provide details about their milk requirements to balance the supply and demand, but has not done so.

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The industry explodes the goat milk market with Dutch surpluses that China rejects 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, ...

Source: Cuaderno Agrario