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\n The global butter market is facing a significant downturn due to a drop in prices across all major regions. Image source: Pixabay <\/p>\n
\n The global butter market is facing a significant downturn due to a drop in prices across all major regions. Image source: Pixabay <\/p>\n
The global butter market is facing a significant downturn due to a drop in prices across all major regions, with European butter leading the decline due to a supply surplus, according to a report by commodity platform Vesper.<\/p>\n
With a supply surplus of 56,500 tonnes compared to the first half of 2024, European butter prices had dropped to \u20ac6,700 (US$7,793)\/tonne on the Vesper Price Index, the 28 August report said.<\/p>\n
However, real-time marketplace activity showed a further decline in prices, with fourth quarter offers dropping from \u20ac6,600 (US$7,739) to \u20ac6,250 (US$7,329) in 24 hours, Vesper wrote.<\/p>\n
Oceania butter remained at \u20ac6,190 ($7,200)\/tonne and US butter at \u20ac4,246 (US$4,938)\/tonne on the Vesper Price Index.<\/p>\n
Market dynamics had shifted in favour of buyers as trading activity ramped up following the holiday period, the report said.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the European supply surplus was due to three key factors:<\/p>\n
37,500 tonnes from increased production6,500 tonnes from reduced exports12,500 tonnes from higher imports<\/p>\n
In the USA, butter prices are declining rapidly as churns maintain high activity levels, producing more butter than the domestic market consumes, according to the report.<\/p>\n
However, record US butter exports \u2013 driven by competitive pricing compared to global markets \u2013 had helped stabilise stock levels despite increased production.<\/p>\n
\u201cOceanian butter prices have shown relative resilience over recent weeks but have begun trading lower due to higher milk prices and declining European prices affecting global benchmarks,\u201d Vesper wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current environment of sellers facing pressure to move inventory while buyers experience no urgency to purchase creates challenging conditions for price recovery in the near term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The global butter market is facing a significant downturn due to a drop in prices across all major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,61,60,123,13804,13803],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-oil-and-fats","tag-oils-and-fats-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}