Forecasting the 2019/20 Fonterra Milk Price

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Our current forecast

Help! What do the grey slash things mean?

When we give a forecast like $6.00/90, the grey number after the slash is the probability that the final Fonterra farmgate milk price will be greater than the blue dollar figure.

How our forecast has changed over time

The dark, solid line is our best guess. There is a 4-in-5 chance that the final milk price will end up in the shaded band.

Historical Fonterra forecasts

The historical Fonterra farmgate milk price forecasts since 2009.

GlobalDairyTrade auction prices

We use auction prices from GlobalDairyTrade to help forecast the milk price. The prices below are not identical to those published by GlobalDairyTrade; in auctions where the product was not sold, or the price was not published, we have imputed a value.

How did we do in the past?

Here are our forecasts from the 2018/19 season.

Here are our forecasts from the 2016/17 season.

About

Oscar Dowson has a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Auckland. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University.

Got some comments? Send an email to oscar@dairyanalytics.co.nz.

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