#Russian Liquid-Milk Output Seen Below Forecast as Herd Shrinks

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Russian liquid-milk production this year will be smaller than projected because the dairy herd is shrinking after feed-grain prices jumped, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
Output will come to 31.6 million metric tons, below the previous forecast of 32.35 million tons, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report. It cited “continued reductions in Russian cow inventories as a result of unrelenting difficulties in acquiring affordable feeds.”
Feed-grain prices climbed to records in Russia this season after drought reduced the 2012 crop by a quarter. The dairy herd will contract further this year, the FAS said. The country had 8.9 million cows by the end of April, down 1.8 percent from a year earlier, according to government statistics.
The smaller herd and lower milk production will spur imports, mainly from neighboring Belarus, the report showed. The FAS raised its projection for Russian milk imports this year by about 10 percent to 330,000 tons.
 
Source:  Bloomberg

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