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Amount of fresh milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers down 9.9%
BC, Riga, 14.09.2018.
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Print versionThe amount of fresh milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers in August of 2018 dropped 9.87% from the same period of last year to 71,536 tons, informs LETA referring to the information from the Latvian Agricultural Data Center.
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The number of dairy cows in Latvia continued shrinking. In August 2018,
there were 149,549 dairy cows registered in Latvia, down 3.43% from August 2017
when there were 154,859 dairy cows in Latvia. Of all the dairy cows registered
in Latvia, 132,081 were producing milk in August, down 3.8% from the same month
in 2017.
According to the preliminary data, the average purchase price of fresh
milk in Latvia in July this year rose 2.5% to 276.5 euros per ton. The
Agricultural Data Center has yet to release information on the average milk
purchase price for August.
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