Fonterra tipped to lift milk price forecast on 'balanced' global dairy markets

Fonterra tipped to lift milk price forecast on 'balanced' global dairy markets
Jonathan Underhill
By Rebecca Howard March 20 (BusinessDesk) - Nathan Penny, senior rural economist at ASB Bank, expects Fonterra Cooperative Group to lift its 2017/18 milk price forecast to $6.50/kg or above from the $6.40/kg set back in December when it reports its first-half results tomorrow. Penny notes that the informal market median expectation is for $6.45/kg but “dairy prices have strengthened considerably since the December update” with whole milk powder prices up by around 16 percent since the December update, while overall prices have lifted arou...