Where will the European Green Deal take the dairy industry? Christophe Lafougere of the international consultancy GIRA shared his initial assessments with conference participants today, 10 June, at the virtual annual conference of the EU dairy trade association Eucolait.
Milk production could fall by up to 8% and the price of milk could rise by over 10%. At the same time, organic dairy farming will become an even stronger focus of all sustainability efforts.
Plant-based dairy alternatives will not develop any real competition to original milk in the long run. However, precision fermentation poses a real threat to genuine milk ingredients. This is because precision fermentation delivers nature-identical products, soon probably at prices comparable to those of real dairy ingredients.
