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Upcoming Free Webinar: is the dairy industry facing a new reality?
Following the spike in inflation, global events are unfolding that put the world as we know it into question. IFCN would like to explore if dairy is indeed facing a new reality. As both the milk price and farm input costs continue to soar, how can the impact on dairy farm economics be measured?
Download for free: World Dairy Map 2021
IFCN World Dairy Map 2021 is aimed equally at dairy analysts – juniors and seniors, students and professors, milk experts and amateurs.
Digital Dairy: How to design the future of the dairy world?
We invite you to join us at the 2021 IFCN Supporter Conference “Digital Dairy: How to design the future dairy world?” on 15th of September 2021. Explore together with us how digitalization can solve the main challenges of dairy industry.
Carbon neutral dairy farming in 2050 – will this be possible?
Carbon dioxide levels in the air are at their highest level in 650,000 years and we have seen 19 of the warmest years since 2000. This is relevant for dairy farming because …
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The New Normal in Dairy – Milk is no longer a fixed constant
Under current dairy market conditions, a shrinking global milk supply is meeting steadily increasing demand, and farm profitability is under increasing pressure with milk and feed prices at unprecedented levels.

Urgent: Russian tanks have crossed the border – what does this mean for the dairy industry?
The war in Ukraine is bringing suffering to the lives of the country’s people with its destructive effects. The political and economic impact is not a priority in such a situation. Nevertheless, at IFCN we have been analyzing what the consequences could be, focusing on the dairy sector.

Soaring fertilizer prices threaten the milk supply
Dairy farmers have faced rising input costs since the end of 2020. Based on an analysis of typical farm types in more than 50 countries, IFCN finds that the main cost item, accounting for 30% to 70% of the cost of milk production, is precisely feed.
IFCN Dairy Data
Dairy sector analysis
National and global analysis of milk production, consumption, trade and the related drivers
Milk price analysis
Global dairy commodity prices, local farm gate milk prices and price transmission schemes
Dairy chain analysis
Analyzing the dairy value chain from the farmer through the consumer with a key focus is on the margins in the chain
Dairy policy analysis
As policy is one of the key drivers in the dairy sector the IFCN has a set of tools to quantify the impacts of different policies
IFCN Farm Analysis
Farm comparison
Analysis of the cost of milk production: worldwide comparison of micro-economic results such as cost of milk production, returns, profitability and productivities of dairy farms and the drivers behind them
Sustainability of milk production
Tools to evaluate the sustainability of dairy farming systems, which also covers social and environmental indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions by different farm types
Dairy farm structure analysis
Monitoring dairy farm numbers and farm size developments
More than 140 dairy related companies cooperate with IFCN a global dairy related research network that helps to better understand the dairy world by providing globally comparable dairy economic data and even forecasts since 2000.


























