NZ's Synlait Milk raises milk price forecast for 2024/25 season
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Oct 10 (Reuters) -New Zealand's Synlait Milk SML.NZ on Thursday raised itsbase milk price forecast for the 2024-25 season, as globalcommodities prices stayed strong.
The company said it now expects the base milk price for the 2024-25 season to be NZ$9 per kilogram of milk solids (kgMS), up from NZ$8.60 per kgMS.
Thebase milk price is what a companypays to farmers for milk.
The dairy processing firm said the forecast increase was driven by"continued strengthening in global commodities prices, off the back of contractions in global supply".
Synlait reported a base milk price of NZ$7.83 per kgMS for the 2023-24 season.
PeerFonterra FCG.NZ had alsoraised its 2024/25 forecast farmgate milk price range toNZ$8.25-NZ$9.75 per kgMS, citing higher global dairy prices and constrained supply from key producing regions.
Reporting by Rajasik Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas and Devika Syamnath
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