Commodity Markets, Prices & Futures
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Latest News from Markets
Dairy product and milk prices are substantially lower than a year ago, yet this has not been reflected at the retail level. Thus, lower prices are not stimulating demand as consumers are not seeing them.
Milk markets continue to lurk in the doldrum this week. Feed and grain prices also slid lower giving dairymen a breather on fall feed prices.
Milk prices have felt pretty lackluster throughout 2023. Unfortunately, this trend is one farmers will continue to face throughout the remainder of the year and going into 2024.
Friday was not a good day for dairy markets - the roller coaster of spot trade continued lower on the trade with Cheese struggling on large volume.
Dairy markets continue to dissapoint this week as the CME Dairy Spot Call continues to see offers with a lack of bids.
Butter and nonfat dry milk rose in value while both cheese contracts and whey fell.
A big U.S. corn crop could further reduce feed prices.
The CME Spot Trade was flat to negative across all commodities. Grains are having a tough go of it after China ghosted the marketplace.
Dairy products continue to be offered on the spot market even though prices are already low. Sellers seem to want to move product and limit inventory rather than maintain a higher supply for upcoming demand.
Dairy markets continued their downhill decent as we kicked off the first day of May.