Dairy merchandise: German eat extra cheese – minus in butter | EUROtoday

The individuals in Germany saved one thing with butter final yr, however ate extra cheese. The arithmetic per capita consumption of cheese merchandise rose by a kilogram to 25.4 kilograms in comparison with 2023, because the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food introduced. The home cheese manufacturing grew from 2.66 million tons to 2.74 million tons.

One package deal much less

In the case of butter, the per capita consumption fell right into a computational by a 250 gram parcel to five.3 kilograms. According to the preliminary figures, the manufacturing amount of butter, milk fats and milk strokes fades decreased barely to 473,400 tons. Around 5 kilograms of milk are wanted for the manufacturing of a packet of butter, because it was defined.

There had been a powerful improve in worth for butter final yr. The most cost-effective packet of German model butter price 2.39 euros in October – greater than ever. According to consultants, the explanations had been smaller quantities of milk that had been delivered by farmers and a decrease fats content material in uncooked milk. Butter costs have been falling once more because the starting of February.

Farmers delivered much less to dairies

Milk deliveries within the dairies fell by 118,000 tons to 31.3 million tons in 2024, as could be seen from the information of the Federal Information Center Agriculture. The blue -decay illness additionally had an affect in cows. The manufacturing of shopper milk fell to 4.1 million tons for the fourth time in a row. The per capita consumption remained fixed at 46.2 kilos.

Farmers obtained 48.14 cents per kilogram of conventionally generated milk and nearly 3 cents greater than 2023. There had been 58.03 cents per kilo for biomilch. The variety of dairy cows decreased by 123,000 to nearly 3.6 million animals. The variety of corporations fell by 3.8 p.c to 48,649.

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