New Zealand’s milk production in June was only down by 1.4% instead of the 10.4% originally reported by Fonterra, while production in the US is up by 1.6% between January and June to 48.715 million tonnes (mt).

Milk supplies from the 28 countries still in the EU is up by 4.5% from January to May, but supplies are falling since then in most of the bigger producing countries.

Mexico, with an increase of 1.8%, is the only country in Central and South America where production is up for the first half of this year. Production is down by 4.5% in Brazil, 3.2% in Chile and 12.5% in Uruguay.

Russia has increased its milk production by 0.5% to 11.818mt between January and May. Belarus is up by 0.8% to 3.545mt, but Ukraine is down by 1.7% to 5.107mt between January and June.

Japan is up by 1.2% to 3.15mt, but Australia dropped by 3.5% to 3.566mt.

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