Sheep’s milk price debacle, in March 2025, with a drop of almost 20%

Complicated situation drags the sector of the milk sheep who has seen how, in the month of March 2025, the deliveries It has been reduced, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, In almost 20% until falling at 1,291 euros per liters.

If the amount of the amount paid to the farmers was down, the same can be said of the production that descends in a 9% in the monthly data and a 4.8% in accumulated of the first three months of 2025, as well as number of professionals With delivery that has an 11%decrease, 320 disappearing in the last 365 days.

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Of sinking The evolution of the Sheep’s milk price in Spain during the month of March 2025, by virtue of the figures provided by the map.

He Average type amount paid to farmers who are still dedicated to this activity, it has been at 1,291 euros per liter, which represents a 18.50 reduction in relation to the same 2024 period when it was 1,584 euros. Castilla La Mancha It is the one that takes the worst part in this evolution with a decrease of 24.1% from 1,911 euros to 1,451 while in Castilla y León The reduction is 14% falling from the initial 1,375 euros to the current current 1,184.

Similar situation, how could it be otherwise, it can be seen in the Price per hect that farmers perceive under the quality of the milk they deliver. For the set of Space This value is reduced by 19.18% descending from 13.61 euros to March 11, 2024, being the fall in Castilla La Mancha 24% from 15.70 euros to the 11.7 euros shown by the map report, and somewhat lower in Castilla y León It is placed at 14.5% from 12.21 to 10.44 euros per 100 kilos of milk delivered.

Production

If the news is bad for the sector in the price section, they are not better in the production which has maintained, for years, a clear downward trend.

In the month of March 2025 they have occurred in Spain, 44.27 million liters of sheep’s milk which represents a 9% decrease over 2024 when there were 48.67 million. The descent is more intense in Castilla La Mancha with a drop of 11.7% when delivering the 17.2 million liters at 15.2 in the current campaign, being also significant in Castilla y León where milking reduction is 11.7% falling from 25.28 million liters to 24.2.

In it accumulated of the first three months of 2025, The production of sheep’s milk in Spain Sand reduces 4.8% from 114.35 million to 108.89. Here the descent is slightly higher in Castilla y León when 5% drop from 57.6 million to 54.74 while in Castilla La Mancha It is 4.4% living an important decrease from 43.45 million in March 2024 at 41.54 of the same month of 2025.

Livestocks downwards

Finally, underline like the number of farmers Dedicated to this activity, only in one year, it has been reduced by 11% from 2,882 throughout Spain to the current 2,562. Castilla y León This evolution resists better because the decrease in those nine provinces is 7.7% fall from 1,519 to 1,403 while in Castilla La Mancha It reaches 12.5% ​​from 804 to 704 in just 365 days.