37th ICAR Conference 2nd of June 2010, Riga, Latvia

Competitiveness of different dairy production systems Kees de Roest Research Centre for Animal Production, Italy Torsten Hemme Chairman IFCN, Kiel

Agenda points • World milk production and world market price • IFCN concept • Supply and demand of dairy products • Competitiveness of dairy systems (production costs and returns to labour) • Special cases: Parmesan cheese, dual purpose breeds and robust/high yielding cows

World milk production (mln t) EU - 27 India Usa China Pakistan Russia Brazil New Zealand Ucraine Turkey Argentina Austrialia Mexico Others Total

2004 153,2 91,1 77,5 27,0 28,6 32,2 24,3 15,0 13,7 10,7 8,1 10,1 10,0 126,9 628,4

2009 150,9 108,8 85,5 44,4 37,3 32,8 29,5 16,2 11,1 12,3 10,6 9,4 11,2 139,0 699,0

var % -1,5 19,4 10,3 64,4 30,4 1,9 21,4 8,0 -19,0 15,0 30,9 -6,9 12,0 9,5 11,2

Milk surplus and deficit areas EU 10 new

EU 15

Self-sufficiency in %

Milk surplus in mill t milk equivalent Milk deficit in mill t milk equivalent 22mm bei + und