EU-27 : Butter - Stocks, market prices and intervention prices
This page provides, in the relevant period, the connection among:
  • the average wholesale price of Butter in Germany (Köln - Hannover);
  • the stocks of butter and
  • the EU intervention price (intervention is a system in which products are bought by the EU/Government when prices are low and butter supplies high. This excess is put under EU Public storehouses).

In fact the graph evidences the tight connection (inversely proportional) between market price of butter and volume stocks and the decline of intervention prices.

Display the chart starting from 2006

Butter Hannover/Köln
Market price  (€/Kg)
Month 2011 2012 2013 ± % from 2012
January 3,67 3,49 3,37 -3,40%
February 4,09 3,31 3,35 +1,15%
March 4,23 3,08 3,41 +10,89%
April 4,00 2,68 3,93 +46,57%
May 4,00 2,55 4,07 +59,73%
June 4,16 2,68  
July 4,17 2,73  
August 4,03 2,90  
September 4,03 3,25  
October 3,97 3,35  
November 3,81 3,35  
December 3,57 3,35  
Average 3,98 3,06 3,63
Change¹ % +15,03% -23,09% +18,53%
Last Update: 2013-05-22
1) change from previous year
Source: ZMP; since May 6,2009 Amtliche Notierungskommissionen für Butter und Käse, Hannover
 
Butter
EU Intervention Price  (€/kg.)
Month 2011 2012 2013 ± % from 2012
January 2,46 2,46 2,46 0,00%
February 2,46 2,46 2,46 0,00%
March 2,46 2,46 2,46 0,00%
April 2,46 2,46 2,46 0,00%
May 2,46 2,46 2,46 0,00%
June 2,46 2,46  
July 2,46 2,46  
August 2,46 2,46  
September 2,46 2,46  
October 2,46 2,46  
November 2,46 2,46  
December 2,46 2,46  
Average 2,46 2,46 2,46
Change¹ % +0,00% +0,00% +0,00%
Last Update: 2013-05-10
1) change from previous year
Source: EU - Management Committee
 
Butter
Storage warehouses  (Tons)
Month 2011 2012 2013 ± % from 2012
January 15.126 23.507 14.195 -39,61%
February 1.755 8.335 (p)14.196 +70,32%
March 12.432 40.361 (p)17.110 -57,61%
April 32.127 56.117 (p)31.460 -43,94%
May 54.916 83.468 (p)37.876 -54,62%
June 76.152 101.977  
July 90.017 118.277  
August 96.573 118.491  
September 74.594 95.834  
October 57.070 65.388  
November 42.350 38.496  
December 31.051 25.302  
Average 48.680 64.629 22.967
Change¹ % -44,83% +32,76% -64,46%
Last Update: 2013-05-18
1) change from previous year
(p) = provisional value
Source: EU