In the interests of providing some balance:

The inclusion of 2,000 tonnes of whole milk powder from Australia in the auction (up from 1,000 tonnes in August) had little downward impact on prices. New Zealand quantities of 19,000 tonnes were the same as in August and July.

But against the pattern of increasing total volume as the season progressed last season: July 2008 - 11,000 tonnes, August 2008 17,500 tonnes and September 2008 - 25,000 tonnes.
Contract 1 (November delivery) 2008 - 12,000 tonnes. Contract 1 (November delivery) 2009 - 5,000 tonnes.

The total offered in the current auction was down 4,000 tonnes on the amount offerred a year ago. So much for Fonterra's stated intention of increasing the volume of powder sold through auction - July and August started down that path but the trend has certainly reversed in this auction.

Also of interest may be this Question and Answer that was on the Global Dairy site, but is now no longer:

Question 2.10 Will it be possible for Fonterra to influence prices by placing only a small volume on the trading platform?

Its not in Fonterra's interest to do so. Fonterra's interest is to allocate the available milk volume among product groups and between sales channels so as to best meet customer demand. Reducing the volume placed on globalDairyTrade simply means greater volume of other products would have to be sold through other means.

Fonterra's interests are best served by ensuring the complete integrity of global DairyTrade as a sales channel. To achieve this we will be publishing every month an updated twelve month forward forecast of available volume so that customers are fully informed.

I have looked but am not aware of where to find Fonterra's twelve month forward forecast of available volume.

What the hell, heres hoping it filters through to all product ranges. Nice to see a glimmer of a smile on my hardworking dairy farmer mate down the road. We need this bad. Looking around at my own family, only one of which runs a dairy farm, we all depend hugely on dairy income filtering through to us. We have all been holding off spending because we have been scared this was going to get a lot worse. Its not going to give me confidence to buy a couple of big items I have been needing for the farm just yet though.

Yup exporters make the money importers spend it. Including importers of debt. However we cant trust the crooks that run the big companies so we dont what a piece ot the sharemarket. Only way out. Property.

Your links are always a good read Andrew. It leaves one wondering how badly exposed our Aussie banks are to the rural sector, I mean they arent exactly going to yell it from the rooftops are they.
Interesting idea that JK is out there pushing dairy for help in Afganistan. Probably right. He is a dealmaker. He did the chinese dairy deal a few months ago.
PGGW is a cot case, it looks like we will have another name change. How does PggwElders sound. (maybe pigwelder isnt a goer) I hear Elders are selling a few items and fueling their warchest. Wrightson is a great business, but so badly serviced by its various owners year after year, going right back to Dalgeties, WrightStephensons. No one seems to be able to get it right.

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