Analysis of the Milk Price Developments in Selected EU Countries

The main aim of this thesis was describe and evaluate the price trend of milk and dairy products in selected countries of European Union during the period (2001 - 2010). In the first part of this thesis are theoretical knowledge from the sphere of price - pricing methods. The practical part describes the development of agriculture (average numbers of dairy cows, the average annual milk yield, average milk deliveries to dairies for processing...). Then is described the evolution of the farm price of milk and the price of industrial producer (butter and skim milk powder) in selected countries. Next is shown the influence of farm milk prices on the variability of butter and skim milk powder prices. There are also calculated elasticity