CLAL reports that bluetongue has hit sheep and goats in France, Germany, Italy and Greece, and that its spread has recently slowed. It also notes that foot-and-mouth disease re-emerged in Eastern Germany, Slovakia and Hungary in 2025, with no new EU cases in the past three months.
Foot-and-mouth disease raises trade restriction risk for European dairy and meat exports, which can weigh on milk prices. The recent slowdown in bluetongue and the absence of new FMD cases reduce that pressure.
After 22 past neutral disease events, Milk (Class III) moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (41% higher; middle half -1.4% to +0.5%), and +0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.