Milk Up, Meat Down in the Czech Republic

CZECH REPUBLIC - The Czech Statistics Office released the latest results for animal products yesterday. The report concluded that meat production totalled 626,297 tonnes last year, a 0.4% fall that appears to be due to a significant drop in poultry production. However, milk production increases 2.6%.
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Slaughter and meat production

Number of slaughtered cattle incl. calves decreased by 3.1% y-o-y in the 4th quarter of 2007. On the contrary average carcass weight of cattle went up by 0.8% to 292.7 kg y-o-y. As a result, beef incl. veal production went down by 2.4% y-o-y.

Number of slaughtered pigs went up by 3.5% y-o-y and their average carcass weight increased by 0.2% to 88.2 kg. Pig meat production went up by 3.7% y-o-y.

Poultry meat production went up by 0.8% compared to the 4th quarter of 2006.

Meat Production

Agricultural producer prices of cattle, pigs and chicken for slaughter

Agricultural producer prices of cattle for slaughter differed in each cattle category in the 4th quarter of 2007. Price of bulls for slaughter declined by 5.0% y-o-y and price of cows for slaughter went down by 0.2%. On the other hand price of heifers for slaughter rose by 0.6% and price of calves increased by 4.6%. The average price of the E and U-quality bulls for slaughter reached CZK 38.75 per kilogram in live weight and CZK 75.61 per kilogram in carcass weight.

Agricultural producer price of pigs for slaughter went down by 8.0% y-o-y. The average price of the E and U-quality pigs for slaughter reached CZK 29.09 per kilogram in live weight and CZK 37.57 per kilogram in carcass weight.

Agricultural producer price of the 1st-quality chicken for slaughter increased by 22.2% y-o-y. The average price of the 1st-quality chicken reached CZK 23.31 per kilogram in live weight.

Average Prices of Agricultural Producers of Cattle for Slaughter, Pigs for Slaughter and Poultry for Slaughter

Milk collection and agricultural producer prices of milk

Milk collected to dairies amounted to 578.2 mil. litres in the 4th quarter of 2007. Milk collection went up by 3.6% compared to the 4th quarter of 2006.

Milk Collection

Agricultural producer prices of milk rose by 20.7% in the 4th quarter of 2007y-o-y. The average price of the Q-quality milk totaled CZK 9.33 per liter.

Average Agricultural Producer Price of Milk

Evaluation of meat production, milk collection, agricultural producer prices and foreign trade in 2007

Meat production in total amounted to 626 297 tonnes in carcass weight in 2007, which was less by 0.4% compared to 2006. This amount included 340 863 tonnes of pig meat, 78 863 tonnes of beef, 465 tonnes of veal, 212 tonnes of sheep meat, 68 tonnes of horse meat and 205 826 tonnes of poultry meat.

Beef incl. veal production increased by 0.2% y-o-y. Meat production alternatively increased and decreased in quarters of the year.

Prices of agricultural producers of cattle for slaughter declined in all categories y-o-y: for bulls for slaughter by 3.6%, for heifers for slaughter by 1.7%, for cows for slaughter by 0.3% and for calves for slaughter by 0.1% y-o-y.

The average price of bulls for slaughter the E and U-quality reached CZK 39.84 per kilogram in live weight and CZK 76.58 per kilogram in carcass weight in 2007.

Foreign trade¹ in live cattle (cattle for slaughter and calves) ended in surplus of 36 215 tonnes in the period from the 1st December of 2006 to the 30th November of 2007. Imports in total amounted to 1 853 tonnes and imports totaled 38 068 tonnes of live cattle. Imports increased by 79.0% and exports went down by 3.2%. The highest amount of live cattle was imported from Slovakia (62%), less from Romania (12%), Italy (9%) and Germany (8%). Exports went to Austria (44%), Germany (17%), Italy (7%)., Slovenia (6%) and Greece (10%).

Foreign trade¹ in beef ended in a passive trade balance (–13 033 tonnes) in the period from the 1st December of 2006 to the 30th November of 2007. Beef imports amounted to 16 796 tonnes and exports totaled 3 763 tonnes of meat. Beef imports increased by 1.7% and exports went up by 75.7% y-o-y. Beef was imported predominantly from Germany (22%), Poland (19%) and Austria (18%), to a lesser extent from Ireland (13%) and Slovakia (12%). Beef exports went largely to Slovakia (48%), Austria (24%), Poland (13%) and Germany (10%).

Milk collection to dairies amounted to 2 390 million litres in 2007, which was more by 2.6% compared to 2006. Milk quotas have limited milk production (and also dairy cow numbers) since accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. According to the livestock census as of the 1st April of 2007, dairy cow numbers went down by 3.2% to 410 thous. heads.

Agricultural producer prices of the Q-quality milk kept on decrease from January to June 2007 y-o-y. A turn became in the second half of the year. Prices have started to climb progressively since July and maximum reached in the last month of the year (index 128.0). The average price of the Q-quality milk rose by 4.5% y-o-y and reached CZK 8.22 per liter in 2007.

Foreign trade¹ in milk and milk products ended in active trade balance 465.5 thous. tonnes in the period from the 1st December of 2006 to the 30th November of 2007. Imports of milk and milk products amounted to 309.8 thous. tonnes and exports totaled 775.3 thous. tonnes. Exports of milk and milk products went up by 27.3% and imports increased by 10.2% y-o-y. Milk and milk products were imported in particular from Slovakia (49%), Germany (27%) and Poland (15%). Exports went predominantly to Germany (59%) and Slovakia (17%).

Footnotes

1) For Intra-Community trade excl. data under Intrastat statistics threshold (annual value of goods -CZK 2 mil. for receipt, CZK 4 mil. for dispatch)

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