Cheese plant managers relay steady production schedules ahead of Thanksgiving and note inventories are more balanced now than earlier in the year. FLUID MILK HIGHLIGHTS: Fluid milk production, at the farm level, is mixed across the country, and gets stronger moving east to west. In Germany, contacts believe seasonal lows for milk production are on the horizon. According to the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine, dairy prices increased by 30 to 40 percent in October 2024 compared to October 2023. A dairy processor which operates in Australia and New Zealand indicated that the farmgate milk price in New Zealand recently increased above the Australia farmgate milk price for the first time in over 4 years.