Dairy Industry, Products and News
Friends of the Earth (FOE) visited Ealing’s Farmers’ Market to call on the public to support more environmentally friendly methods of food production. Virginia Fassnidge, food campaigner for Ealing FOE said: “The way we produce food has a huge impact on the environment. [notes 1,2] Unfortunately many of our meat producers are causing wholesale environmental [...]
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UK – The British government has reaffirmed its committment to a badger cull in England, as part of a bovine tuberculosis (tB) eradication programme, which has been welcomed by the agricultural and related industries. Almost 14,000 cattle have been slaughtered in the first five months of this year according to Defra and at the end [...]
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(Source: Info-Prod Research (Middle East))According to Capital.ro, of Danone’s fresh dairy products in Romania in the first half of 2010, rose by over 10% compared to the same period of 2009, said the French group. Danone has reported in Europe increases over 10% in sales of fresh dairy products for Ukraine, Poland, Scandinavian countries and [...]
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This summer’s lack of rain and prolonged high temperatures are presenting significant problems for farmers and could even lead to price rises in the shops, experts have warned. Some dairy farmers are being forced to keep cattle in sheds during the day to protect them from the heat. They are also using up supplies of [...]
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KENT NEWS: Struggling dairy farmers could be pushed out of business after the long winter and hot, dry summer has left them with a shortage of animal feed and bedding. Farmers have been forced to dip into supplies of hay, straw and silage usually stored for the autumn and winter meaning they face having to [...]
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By Erika Solomon DUBAI (Reuters) – Hard on the hooves of cow’s and goat’s milk, European grocery shelves may soon be invaded by milk from that proverbial ship of the desert, the camel. An animal famous for bad breath and ill humour might seem an unlikely source of liquid to lubricate a bowl of breakfast [...]
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INDEPENDENT Chester dairy group Meadow Foods, is to increase the milk price it pays producers by one pence per litre from July 1. The increase will be added to the flat rate element of the price paid to farmers and will therefore benefit all 520 of Meadow’s dairy farmers, regardless of their specific contract. It [...]
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NEW ZEALAND – While global dairy prices are expected to ease from current highs – as world supply builds and demand growth begins to slow – the drop is unlikely to be rapid or to occur until later in the year, according to a recently-released Rabobank report. New Zealand‟s dairy industry looks well positioned, with [...]
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Unimilk CEO Andrei Beskhemnitsky, pictured with Unimilk products, will become the chairman of Danone-Unimilk. Danone drove deeper into the fast-growing Russian dairy market Friday, announcing plans for a merger with Unimilk that could pave the way for more consolidation in the European food sector. The world’s largest yogurt maker said the new entity would have [...]
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Speaking in Brussels, Cogeca-Cogeca Secretary-General Pekka Pesonen stressed: “I am anxiously waiting for the final report by the HLG which was first set up to find solutions to the crisis which hit the EU dairy sector last year and to ensure the future functioning of the sector in view of the fact that EU milk [...]
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