Average purchase prices of raw milk remain unchanged over the past week, confirming market expectations for their upward trend to stabilize. This is reported by ProAgro Group, citing the Association of Milk Producers.
Therefore, prices remain at previous levels:
- extra-class – 10.95 UAH/kg,
- the highest – 10.82 UAH/kg,
- the first – 10,46 UAH/kg,
- the weighted average price of the three classes – 10.74 UAH/kg excluding VAT.
The average price for large and medium batches of extra-class milk by regions: north – 11,08 UAH/kg, center – 11,2 UAH/kg, south – 11,2 UAH/kg, east – 11 UAH/kg, west – 11,1 UAH/kg without VAT.
At the same time, in recent months there has been a sharp rise in world dairy markets, which is due to three main reasons – global inflation, the recovery of demand, and rising energy costs. The Ukrainian situation on the dairy market is similar in its dynamics, but with its own internal features.
In particular, the common drivers are inflation and growth of energy costs. Among the additional internal drivers is the deficit of raw materials for processors. The counteracting factors include demand, which, in contrast to the global one, started to fall in our country due to a decrease in the purchasing power of the population, especially at the beginning of the heating season.
