Matthew Beeston

GDT +5.7% globaldairytrade.info/en/product-res…

Highground: "This (GDT) auction result marks the fourth consecutive gain in as many auctions this year, exceeding expectations that were in place during the closing stages of 2025. Shifts in regional demand are also a surprise, with Latin American buyers grabbing whole milk powder in larger-than-normal volumes, while Southeast Asia/Oceania buyers did similar within the skim milk powder complex. Likewise, butter bidding recorded a very impressive opening round of demand, stressing that strong demand arrived again at this auction for butter, and Chinese demand continues to drive price action..."

Fonterra lifts 2025/26 season forecast Farmgate Milk Price midpoint from $9.00 per kgMS to $9.50 per kgMS fonterra.com/nz/en/our-stor…

What has gotten into the nonfat dry milk (NDM) market? NDM prices have been climbing since January, but the trajectory accelerated meaningfully this week. After taking a brief respite on Monday, the spot price for NDM rose every day between Tuesday and Friday, delivering an 18¢ increase, and qualifying as the commodity’s strongest week since May 2007. Prices settled at $1.64/lb. on Friday, which is not only the highest price since August 2022, but is also a comfortable 16.75¢ above Cheddar prices, and within spitting distance of the butter price. Product scarcity seems to be driving the gains in the milk powder market as buyers seeking product are coming up empty-handed. According to USDA’s Dairy Products report, combined output of NDM and skim milk powder (SMP) was just 170.3 million pounds in December, down 6.2% compared to the same month last year. Weak production in the final month of 2025 capped off a year of disappointing milk powder output. Over the full year, dryers turned out just 2.143 billion pounds of product, the weakest annual output since 2013. At the end of December, manufacturer’s stocks of NDM totaled 127.2 million pounds, down 2.7% from prior year, but up a hefty 17.7% compared to prior month. Other global powder markets have also experienced a lift, which has likely buoyed the domestic market further. At Tuesday’s Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, the SMP price jumped 10.6%, complementing gains across every other product category. But despite the dramatic increase, after correcting for different protein levels, GDT product holds a 25¢ advantage compared to the CME price for NDM. With such an important price gap at play, it will prove challenging for U.S. exporters to ink new export sales. …1-48fb-a88a-b85b17afe36f.usrfiles.com/ugd/318cf1_aca…

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GDT +6.3% globaldairytrade.info/en/product-res…

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There was uncertainty in the international market, but he was not concerned at this stage by extra milk appearing overseas as demand remained strong. "While we have seen the market come back from where it was maybe from a couple of months ago from its peak, we had built that into our pricing from the start, so we are still very comfortable with $10. "Despite additional milk coming out of North America in particular we are still seeing strong demand, and we just have to watch some of those geopolitics in play." Most of the extra North American milk would be consumed in their domestic markets, he said. odt.co.nz/rural-life/dai…