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Butter prices double in last decade, will the bubble burst?

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Publish Date
Fri, 18 Jul 2025, 11:03am
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Butter prices double in last decade, will the bubble burst?

Author
九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 18 Jul 2025, 11:03am

We may have to get used to paying more for butter. 

Kiwi consumers are now consistently paying more than twice as much for butter as they were a decade ago, according to latest Stats NZ figures. 

Supermarkets and suppliers have been under pressure to lower prices. 

Federated Farmers Dairy Chair Karl Dean told Andrew Dickens there鈥檚 been a global trend towards consuming more butter, especially in the last five years, ramping up even further in the last twelve months. 

However, he says, what goes up normally comes down, which these bubbles normally do.  

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