RESEND: Dairy product price index dips for fourth straight auction

RESEND: Dairy product price index dips for fourth straight auction
Margreet Dietz
(Resent after technical issue affected delivery to some subscribers) By Margreet Dietz July 3 (BusinessDesk) - The index for dairy product prices fell at the Global Dairy Trade auction, declining a fourth consecutive time, as whole milk powder prices continued their fall. The GDT price index slipped 0.4 percent from the previous auction two weeks ago. The average price was US$3,302 a tonne, compared with US$3,208 a tonne two weeks ago. Some 24,711 tonnes of product was sold, up from 24,239 tonnes two weeks ago. Whole milk powder ave...

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