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Mass closures of restaurants and schools shifted dairy sales abruptly from wholesale food-service channels to retail grocery stores. Dairy processors also struggled to find enough drivers because some workers feared the virus and stopped working.
U.S. dairy farmers began dumping milk.
Lost food-service demand and logistics bottlenecks leave surplus milk with no outlet, pressuring farmgate and Class III milk prices lower.
reuters.comP.J. Huffstutter3 abr 2020reuters.comP.J. Huffstutter5 abr 2020Tras 49 eventos bajista de macro pasados, Leche (Clase III) se movió una mediana de -0,6 % en 5 sesiones (33% al alza; mitad central entre -8,5 % y +0,6 %), y -7,5 % en 20.
Variaciones de la referencia de cada materia prima desde el último cierre antes del evento. Las lecturas históricas agrupan eventos pasados del mismo tipo; describen lo ocurrido, no lo que ocurrirá. No es asesoramiento de inversión.
Shift from foodservice to retail and processing and labor disruptions created demand and logistics dislocations that weighed on milk prices.
Restaurant and school closures shifted sales away from wholesale channels, and processor labor shortages and milk dumping signaled a supply-demand imbalance.
