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As I reported last week, the Agriculture Department raised its estimate on 2021 milk production in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report issued April 9, based âprimarily on increased cow numbers.â Projected Class III and Class IV milk prices were also raised.
The 2020/21 U.S. corn outlook was for greater feed and residual use, increased corn used for ethanol production, larger exports, and lower ending stocks.Â
The feed and residual use projection was raised 50 million bushels to 5.7 billion, based on corn stocks reported as of March 1, which indicated disappearance during the December to February quarter rose about 6% relative to a year ago.Â
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Winter weather has hit the USA hard, especially in Texas where over four million people were without electricity and temperatures fell to record lows in some parts of the state. HighGround Dairy reported that regulators were prioritizing electricity access to residential areas and balanc-ing surging demand as people heat homes with significant generation loss. Natural gas powered plants were offline, wind turbines were frozen solid, and solar panels were covered in snow.
Needless to say, impacts were significant on dairy farms and processing plants over the holiday weekend, according to HGD. âMilk production and collection was impacted in the Texas pan-handle and in other parts of the state as record low temperatures created significant on-farm complications. Processing plants were shutdown, as utilities restricted electricity and natural gas availability to industrial users. Milk dumping was prevalent across the state,â according to HGD.
Published: Friday, December 18, 2020
The following is from Lee Mielke, author of a dairy market column known as Mielke Market Weekly.
U.S. dairy exports reached a four-month high of 17 percent of U.S. milk production in October, according to the Dec. 4 Dairy and Food Market Analyst, up from 15.3 percent of milk solids exported in September and 14.9 percent one year earlier.
Topping the gains was dry whey, which totaled 53 million pounds, up 145 percent from October 2019. China took just over 29 million pounds of that total, up from just 2.6 million a year ago. HighGround Dairy reported that the U.S. also exported an all-time high amount of whey to Vietnam.
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