Anything over $ 6 is good but we've got to be realistic and
with the global dairy prices coming down, something had to give.»
Chairman of Fonterra, John Wilson, said the 2015/16 season has been incredibly difficult for farmers
with global dairy prices at unstainable prices.
Not exact matches
«This imbalance and the challenge of lower
prices continuing for longer than anticipated is a
global issue, which
dairy farmers around the world are increasingly grappling
with.
In the past 12 months, the
price of
global dairy commodities has tumbled 45 per cent, compared
with Murray Goulburn's cut to the farm gate
price of as much as 15 per cent.
Increased demand from consumers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, buoyed by strong oil
prices, coupled
with exports to traditional trading partners such as Japan, is benefiting the Australian
dairy sector, which has a 17 per cent share of
global cheese exports.
This compares
with its prospectus forecast of $ 89 million, and previous warnings to investors that its net profit would be between $ 66 million and $ 86 million if
global dairy prices didn't recover as expected.
That combined
with persistently weak
global dairy prices led to the profit downgrade.
This compared
with its prospectus forecast of $ 89 million, and previous warnings to investors that its net profit would be between $ 66 million and $ 86 million if
global dairy prices didn't recover as expected.
Some pressure is still expected to build on
global commodity
prices in this year's second quarter, in line
with the northern hemisphere milk peak, Rabobank's latest
dairy quarterly says.
Glanbia is revising its 2010 earnings per share guidance upwards as figures from the
dairy ingredients business improve
with the recovery in
global dairy prices.
Michael Harvey, a senior analyst (
dairy)
with Rabobank, said he was optimistic for the Australian industry after
global dairy commodity
prices started to firm from the middle of 2016.