While butter prices in Austria have only started to fall slightly recently, they are slipping across the board in Germany. Various German discounters, but also supermarkets, lowered the prices for a quarter-kilo pack of branded butter in the entry-level price range significantly on Wednesday – from 1.99 to 1.59 euros. The 20 percent reduction is not a special offer, but the new normal price, the dpa news agency reported.
In this country, only the Schärdinger brand from Austria’s largest dairy, Berglandmilch, has announced that it will reduce the price of butter by 6 percent as of February. The price reduction should apply to all trading partners in Austria. And the trading partners also wanted to follow suit, Spar and Rewe also announced this.
Alternative farmers’ representatives of IG Milch criticized the fact that Berglandmilch announced a 6 percent reduction in the price of butter in the media, while the milk price for all producers was reduced by a good 3.5 percent. You are at the mercy of the dairies. The media butter price discussion is irrelevant, said IG Milch representative Ewald Grünzweil yesterday, Tuesday, the APA.
One reason for the decline in Germany is that following the record milk prices achieved last year, raw milk production has increased noticeably once more, said the general manager of the dairy industry association, Eckhard Heuser, according to dpa.