# Lithuania: Lithuanian Dairy Industry Recovers After the Crisis | USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

> USDA reports that Lithuanian milk deliveries will fall 1% in 2016 after the Russian ban and weaker export demand cut farm-gate prices and cow numbers. Lithuania is shifting more output into butter and cheese and placed 33,665 MT of nonfat dry milk into EU intervention stocks.

- Date: 2016-11-17 · published 2016-11-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Europe · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73873-lithuania-lithuanian-dairy-industry-recovers-after-the-crisis-usda-foreign
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

Reduced Lithuanian milk output and EU intervention stock purchases tighten European dairy supply, modestly supporting dairy prices.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: bullish ▲

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## Sources

- fas.usda.gov: https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/lithuania-lithuanian-dairy-industry-recovers-after-crisis

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