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After a significant drop in dairy prices in October, the market has calmed down again and demand is even picking up again. The tight supply of dairy products is still causing high prices.

The multi-year public-private partnership project 'Measuring dairy cattle welfare with biomarkers' has recently been completed. It is concluded that biomarkers can be useful for monitoring welfare in dairy cows. Combinations of different biomarkers provide more information than individual measurements. More research is needed to further develop these biomarkers, so that dairy farmers can better monitor the welfare of their cows.

The supply of calves for veal farming in the Netherlands will decrease significantly in the coming years, mainly as a result of a reduction in the dairy herd in North-Western Europe. The number of calf places is also decreasing, partly because veal farmers participate in schemes for business termination.