
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.
過去の弱気なマクロイベント49件の後、牛乳(クラスIII) は5営業日で中央値 -0.6% 動き(33% が上昇。中央50%は -8.5% から +0.6%)、20営業日では -7.5% 動きました。
イベント直前の終値からの各商品ベンチマークの動き。過去の傾向は同種の過去イベントをまとめたものであり、起きたことを示すもので、今後を示すものではありません。投資助言ではありません。
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.