Milk supply in the Netherlands increased by 4.1% in February

For a comparable amount of milk delivered in February, we have to go back to 2020. Then dairy farms delivered 1.14 million tonnes of milk, but February was one day longer in that year. The growth to the peak of this spring has started. The average daily quantity of milk supplied is 39,676 tonnes. That is 1.5% higher compared to January this year. Fat production increased even faster in February, by 5.9% to 50,984 tonnes. This is because the fat percentage is relatively high this year. The fat percentage in February is 4.59% compared to the average fat content of 4.51% in February 2022. Less condensed milk The amount of condensed milk produced in January fell by almost 19% to over 29,000 tonnes compared to the same period last year. The Dutch production of consumer milk products fell by 5% to almost 77,000 tonnes. Butter is also made less. This quantity decreases by more than 4% to 11,379 tonnes of product. In absolute quantities, whole milk powder is only a small product, but the ...