Market data
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Markets move because thousands of individual events happen every day. Production changes. Auctions settle. Futures move. Stocks build. Exports accelerate.
Market Data brings together the most relevant public information from across the global dairy industry and explains why it matters.
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Market prices
The reference and physical levels contracts are written against.
Weekly quotations
2 Sept 2026The German, French and Dutch commission quotations for butter, SMP, whey and WMP, with our own average of the three.
European price sheet
6 Sept 2026What every member state reports it paid, week by week, for butter, the powders, whey and the cheeses — published by the European Commission.
US dairy (USDA)
12 Sept 2026The American survey prices — butter, cheddar, nonfat dry milk, dry whey — with their trends and seasons.
Farmgate milk prices
Jul 2026What sixteen big European dairies actually paid their farmers — FrieslandCampina, Arla, DMK, Lactalis and the rest — recalculated to one standard milk so the lines truly compare, with Switzerland, the US and New Zealand alongside.
Global auctions
What buyers actually paid, in the open.
Supply and production
How much milk Europe and the United States delivered, what became of it, and what sits in store.
French milk collection
Week 36 · 2026How much milk French farms delivered, week by week — FranceAgriMer's survey of the dairies, indexed to the 2016 average, back to 2019.
Dutch milk collection
Jul 2026Official monthly raw-milk receipts in the Netherlands, including average fat content, back to 2016.
German milk intake
Week 36 · 2026Germany's weekly milk intake from the ZMB rapid survey, with butter, cheese and SMP production, quoted from the LVN's Friday report.
Eurostat
Apr 2026European milk deliveries, production, stocks and trade flows, built up from the member states.
US dairy stocks
Jul 2026Monthly US stocks: butter and American cheese in cold storage, plus dry whey and the milk powders at their makers — in tonnes, six years back.
US dairy production
Jul 2026Monthly US output: the milk itself, and the butter, cheese, nonfat dry milk and dry whey made from it — in tonnes, six years back.
Trade flows
What crosses the EU border, in which direction, and at what declared value.
EU import & export
Jul 2026The customs record of the EU-27's dairy trade with the rest of the world — imports and exports by product and partner country, monthly back to 2015.
US import & export
Jul 2026The American customs record of the same trade — dairy exports and imports by product and partner country, monthly back to 2015, in kilos and dollars.
Cream, inside the EU
Jul 2026The intra-EU cream record, member state by member state — who ships, who receives, and every from — to corridor with the tonnes attached, in both customs perspectives.
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