Panna bulletin: why is it important?
On CLAL’s website you can find weekly, monthly and annual quotations for cream, butter and custard.
Specifically, the price of cream changes based on certain parameters, which are calmed by the mechanism of indexing. In detail, the website of CLAL, an independent institute that analyzes dairy market trends, defines itself as cream:
“Cream of milk or cream: the product obtained from milk with a minimum milk fat content of 10% by weight” (according to the Community regulatory reference CMO 1234_2007, Annex XV – Chapter III- Point1″.
Industrial-use cream from Compagnia Lattiero Casearia is used in cafeterias, kitchens, and pastries and has fat contents ranging from 10 to 30 percent. The best way to know the price of cream in the milk market is to consult the bulletin published on the CLAL website. Here are the weekly, monthly and annual prices of farmgate milk, butter, cream and other dairy products in Italy, Europe and the world.
The cream bulletin and the milk market: what has changed
Over the past decade, the milk market has gone through ups and downs that have seen farmgate milk, whey, milk powder, cheese, butter and cream quotation prices fall and then rise again.
Impacting the dairy sector and prices have been several factors such as competitors providing plant-based alternatives to milk and growing demand for lactose-free products. In addition to this, partly due to changes in the legislative-productive sector, prices after the long period of fluctuation from 2009 to the present seem finally to be on their way to greater stability.
At the end of 2016, the farmgate milk price reached a low of 30 cents/l (against an estimated average cost of production of around 40 cents/l) and then rose again to positive and fairer figures for consumers and producers. Too low a barn price causes the death of Italy’s leading agribusiness sector.
The price of cream since 2017 has also reached decent levels and export quantities have increased with the beginning of a positive trend recorded by CLAL’s cream bulletin.
Company producing and exporting cream throughout Italy
Cream is experiencing an upward trend despite strong competition from vegetable cream, as photographed by CLAL’s cream bulletin, which updates on an annual, monthly and weekly basis.
The best way to respond to vegan competition is to focus on the quality of raw material, guarantee of origin, and transparency of the supply chain. It is also crucial to rely on reliable and timely suppliers of a verified and qualified raw material, such as the milk-based products sold and exported worldwide by CLC in Roccafranca, BS.
The Lombard company producing and exporting milk and milk-based products operates by applying protocols for verification and management of production procedures and product quality, aimed at ensuring product safety and legality in accordance with national, EU and all importing countries’ legal requirements.
