16 March 2007

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North America

Highlights

• For the 12 month period ending December 31, 2006 Canadian requirements were 48.44 million hectolitres as determined by the Canadian Milk Supply Management Committee (CMSMC).
• Canadian milk producers sold 3.05 million kilolitres of milk and cream to dairies during the first five months of 2006-2007 dairy year, down 2.0% from last year.
• Industrial milk sales, which accounted for 58.4% of all milk sold, totalled 1.78 million kilolitres.
• Fluid milk sales, at 1.27 million kilolitres, were 0.7% above year-ago levels.
• Canadian consumers purchased 1.26 million kilolitres of milk and cream during the first five months of the 2006-2007 dairy year, virtually unchanged from the same period of the 2005-2006 dairy year.
• Sales of 2% milk, the most popular, were slightly lower at 525 thousand kilolitres. Sales of 1% milk and skim milk both increased, at 247 thousand kilolitres and 120 thousand kilolitres respectively. Sales of standard (homogenized) milk at 170 thousand kilolitres declined 1.2%.
• Total cream sales, at 121 thousand kilolitres, increased 2.9% from year-ago levels.
• Butter production decreased during the first five months of the 2006-2007 dairy year to 26.6 thousand tonnes from 29.8 thousand tonnes a year ago.
• Total production of variety and cheddar cheese decreased during the first five months of the 2006-2007 dairy year from last year levels.
• Variety cheese production decreased to 76.5 thousand tonnes from 94.7 thousand tonnes and cheddar cheese production decreased to 53.8 thousand tonnes from 55.5 thousand tonnes a year ago. 6 Statistics Canada – Catalogue no. 23-014

Introduction

This publication provides a statistical summary on the dairy industry in Canada and the provinces for current and previous calendar years.

Data include monthly, as well as year-to-date information, on farm sales of milk and cream for fluid and industrial purposes, cash receipts from milk and cream sold off farms, production, stocks, and supply and disposition of creamery butter, cheddar cheese and other dairy products and by-products. Data series are available on a historic basis since 1920.

This publication, Dairy Statistics, provides statistical information on the dairy products industry at national and provincial levels. Through co-operation between provincial departments of agriculture, milk marketing boards and Statistics Canada, dairy statistics are collected, compiled, disseminated and analyzed on a monthly basis.

Information on the volume of milk and cream sold off farms and commercial sales of fluid milk and cream by dairies are used by governments and provincial marketing boards in calculating provincial market sharing quota allotment and skim-off credit. These data are also important as an indicator of changes in the supply-managed dairy industry, a major contributor to total farm cash receipts.

Analysis

• Canadian requirements
  For the 12 month period ending December 31, 2006 Canadian requirements were 48.44 million hectolitres as determined by the Canadian Milk Supply Management Committee (CMSMC).
  
  Canadian requirements, which are calculated by the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC), represent the total demand for industrial milk and cream and are the basis for establishing national Market Sharing Quota (MSQ).
  
  
• Off-farm sales to dairies below last year’s level
  Canadian milk producers sold 3.05 million kilolitres of milk and cream to dairies during the first five months of 2006-2007 dairy year, down 2.0% from last year. Industrial milk sales, which accounted for 58.4% of all milk sold, totalled 1.78 million kilolitres. Fluid milk sales, at 1.27 million kilolitres, were 0.7% above year-ago levels
  
  
• Total sales of milk and cream by dairies increased
  Canadian consumers purchased 1.26 million kilolitres of milk and cream during the first five months of the 2006-2007 dairy year, virtually unchanged from the same period of the 2005-2006 dairy year.
  
  Sales of 2% milk, the most popular, were slightly lower at 525 thousand kilolitres. Sales of 1% milk and skim milk both increased, at 247 thousand kilolitres and 120 thousand kilolitres respectively. Sales of standard (homogenized) milk at 170 thousand kilolitres declined 1.2%. Total cream sales, at 121 thousand kilolitres, increased 2.9% from year-ago levels.
  
  
• Butter production decreased
  Butter production decreased during the first five months of the 2006-2007 dairy year to 26.6 thousand tonnes from 29.8 thousand tonnes a year ago.
  
  
• Total cheese production decreased
  Total production of variety and cheddar cheese decreased during the first five months of the 2006-2007 dairy year from last year levels. Variety cheese production decreased to 76.5 thousand tonnes from 94.7 thousand tonnes. Cheddar cheese production decreased to 53.8 thousand tonnes from 55.5 thousand tonnes a year ago.

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