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E-mail: agri@cso.ie Carmel Hinchion Sheila Boland Áine Barrett

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CSO statistical release, 31 March 2020, 11am

Milk Statistics

February 2020

Domestic Milk Intake
	2019	2020	% change
	million litres
February	303.6	327.4	7.8%
January-February	478.9	503.6	5.2%

Domestic Milk Intake is up by 7.8% in February 2020

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Domestic milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers was estimated at 327.4 million litres for February 2020. This represents a 7.8% increase over February 2019, but users should note that there were 29 days in February 2020. See Figure 1.

Comparing the February 2020 milk produce figures with those for February 2019 shows that;

Total milk sold for human consumption increased by 1.1% to 42.4 million litres.
Butter production was up 2.3% to 10,800 tonnes.

See Table 1 for more details.

The information used to compile this release was collected under EU Directive 96/16/EC.

The time period reported in this release (February 2020) is before the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

The cheese figures in Table 1 for 2018 and 2017 have been revised. These revisions arose following the identification of a processing error.

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Table 1 Milk Statistics
Category	Year	Unit	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Domestic milk intake	2018	million	161.8	294.2	627.5	823.1	993.1	924.7	853.4	823.8	721.8	642.0	461.2	258.5	7585.0
by creameries and	2019	litres	175.3	303.6	708.7	953.3	1072.2	1001.0	943.2	842.8	721.9	604.7	418.1 ¹	241.4 ¹	7986.2 ¹
pasteurisers	2020		176.2 ¹	327.4

Fat content	2018	%	4.23	4.25	4.23	4.05	3.81	3.82	3.91	4.12	4.35	4.53	4.74	4.58	4.14
	2019		4.21	4.32	4.23	3.94	3.85	3.92	3.96	4.16	4.42	4.74	4.84	4.58	4.17
	2020		4.31 ¹	4.29

Imported milk intake ²	2018	million	70.7	67.5	*	*	*	*	70.1	63.7	58.6	62.9	62.4	71.1	810.9
	2019	litres	71.3	71.1	72.0	56.9	55.5	60.1	53.3	*	58.9	*	*	*	710.6
	2020		*	*

Total milk sold for human	2018	million	45.4	43.3	46.8	44.4	47.0	43.9	43.5	44.9	43.8	45.2	44.6	44.1	536.7
consumption ³	2019	litres	44.8	41.9	46.7	45.2	45.3	45.0	44.7	45.1	43.4	45.4	43.7	41.8 ¹	533.2 ¹
	2020		42.3 ¹	42.4

of which:	2018	million	27.7	26.6	28.5	27.2	29.1	26.8	26.6	27.3	26.4	27.3	27.2	27.0	327.8
Whole milk sales	2019	litres	26.9	25.3	29.0	28.5	28.2	29.4	29.1	28.6	26.8	28.9	26.8	25.8	333.1
	2020		25.5 ¹	25.5
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Skimmed & semi-	2018	million	17.7	16.8	18.2	17.2	17.9	17.0	16.9	17.6	17.4	17.9	17.3	17.1	208.9
skimmed milk sales	2019	litres	17.9	16.6	17.7	16.8	17.2	15.6	15.7	16.6	16.7	16.5	16.9	16.1 ¹	200.1 ¹
	2020		16.8 ¹	16.8

Butter	2018	'000	8.9	9.5	20.2	23.7	27.5	25.6	23.4	24.6	22.5	20.3	17.9	13.9	237.8
	2019	tonnes	8.2	10.6	22.2	28.4	31.0	28.1	28.2	25.5	22.3	20.2	15.0	10.9 ¹	250.8 ¹
	2020		7.0 ¹	10.8

Skimmed milk powder	2018	'000	*	*	7.1	10.1	20.4	18.6	13.1	13.6	11.5	10.1	11.7	11.3	133.8
	2019	tonnes	5.2	*	5.8	21.4	24.2	18.4	19.1	12.3	9.1	8.6	*	10.2	142.5
	2020		*	*

Cheese⁴	2017	'000	3.2	10.1	26.3	27.0	28.9	32.7	26.3	28.8	31.1	22.5	16.3	6.0	259.4
	2018	tonnes	3.5	11.6	25.4	25.6	30.7	32.9	26.6	29.9	31.0	27.1	20.0	5.2	269.4
	2019		3.6	9.2	25.0	27.7	31.7	33.3	28.6	31.4	32.2	26.8	23.5	5.4	278.4

¹ Revised.
² Raw milk imports and imported milk for processing on contract. This does not include imported packaged milk for retail sale.
³ Does not include imported packaged milk for retail sale.
⁴ Cheese figures for 2018 and 2017 have been revised. These revisions arose following the identification of a processing error.
* Confidential.

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Table 2 EU Milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers			‘000 tonnes
Country	Jan - Dec 18	Jan - Dec 19	% change
European Union ¹	157,383	158,223	0.5
Austria	3,183	3,140	-1.4
Belgium	4,179	4289 ²	2.6
Bulgaria	649	659	1.5
Croatia	453	436	-3.9
Cyprus	228	239	4.7
Czech Republic	3,033	3,074	1.3
Denmark	5,615	5,615	0.0
Estonia	748	763	2.0
Finland	2,354	2,330	-1.0
France	24543 ³	24499 ³	-0.2
Germany	32,491	32,442	-0.1
Greece	620	631	1.8
Hungary	1,535	1,568	2.1
Ireland	7,810	8,227	5.3
Italy	12071 ³	11965 ³	-0.9
Latvia	781	785 ³	0.6
Lithuania	1,367	1,358	-0.6
Luxembourg	395	409	3.7
Malta	40	42	2.7
Netherlands	13,881	13,788	-0.7
Poland	11,946	12,175	1.9
Portugal	1,894	1,892	-0.1
Romania	1109 ³	1122 ³	1.2
Slovakia	818	815	-0.4
Slovenia	571	564	-1.2
Spain	7121 ³	7265 ³	2.0
Sweden	2,760	2,704	-2.0
United Kingdom	15,188	15,428	1.6

Source: New Cronos database, Eurostat (except Ireland and European Union total, CSO).
¹Figures for EU include provisional France, Latvia, Spain, Romania and Italy figures.
² Estimate.
³ Provisional.

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The monthly milk and milk products inquiry is a census of all creameries and pasteurisers.

Milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers

Whole milk purchased by creameries and pasteurisers from domestic producers through collection depots and separating stations including whole milk obtained from herds owned by the creameries and pasteurisers. The fat content of the whole milk is also collected. To convert milk intake from million litres to ‘000 tonnes use the following formula:

1 tonne liquid milk = 971.164 litres.

Skimmed milk

Milk with less than or equal to 0.3% fat content.

Semi-skimmed milk

Milk with between 1.5% and 1.8% fat content.

Skimmed milk powder

Milk powder with not more than 1.5% milk fat content.

Cheese

The cheese figures are not adjusted to a calendar month basis.

Imported Milk Intake

Raw milk imports and imported milk for processing on contract. This does not include milk already packaged for retail sale.

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