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Are you up to the challenge? And more to the point are the exhibitors up to the challenge at this year's Dairy Event? That's the question posed by Pat Tomlinson, [...]

The NFU is poised to launch a national invoicing campaign, inviting dairy farmers to invoice their buyers for the full cost of production, plus exceptional costs arising from this summer's […]

The gap between the price dairy farmers receive and the costs they face continue to widen, providing further evidence that the market just isn't functioning, dairy board chairman Gwyn Jones […]

New Zealand payout increases Things are looking up for New Zealand dairy producers. Fonterra, the country’s largest dairy cooperative, announced a 1.6% increase in farm payouts for 2005. Fonterra announced [...]

Water, like all utility inputs, is becoming increasingly expensive. Installing a borehole could slash these costs Dairy farmers milking up to 200 cows and paying annual water charges of about […]

Dairy farmers should be paid bonuses based on the cost of collecting their milk, according to one industry consultant. John Allen of Kite Consulting, who admitted his idea might prove […]

KUDOS to House Speaker Dennis Hastert for insisting that the Christmas tree on the Capitol lawn be designated, once again, the Capitol Christmas Tree. Political correctness had worked to re-dub [...]

A family haulage firm which has collected milk from dairy farmers in Cumbria and South-West Scotland for more than 75 years has lost its contract to a logistics giant from [...]

Kiwi price collapse. New Zealand dairy producers will see income drop $72,000 per farm this year due to lower world prices and a strengthening Kiwi [...]

IF THERE IS ONE THING FOR WHICH CALIFORNIA is known, it's sunshine--and brothers Mike and Manuel Monteiro, third generation dairy producers and Central California growers, have tapped the abundant solar [...]

By Philip ClarkeEurope editor BELEAGUERED dairy farmers have received two bits of good news in the past week that could signal an upturn in milk prices. The first was when […]

By Robert Harris DAIRY producers supplying the new farmer-backed Amelca milk and cheese factory in Derbyshire can expect to receive a premium price for their milk by next autumn. Speaking […]

A new web tool is available for members of dairy cooperatives across the United States to help them discover the cost savings and other benefits associated with energy efficiency on [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With milk prices getting lower in New Zealand, it is easy to understand why farmers might be downhearted. But according to the chairman of Fonterra, the co-operative is [...]

The opening of the March 2009 trading is expected to see milk prices decline to $5 per 100 pounds, a big drop from the 2008 average price of $17.44 per 100 pounds. The drop in prices continues even as input costs increase and farmers seek other ventures. Other details on the impact of the recessionary trends on Tennessee dairy farmers are discussed.

German dairy farmers' recent supply boycott seem yield results as retail and wholesale prices of milk, butter and cheese increase. Cheese wholesale price was reported to increase by 18% in the past week, and higher butter prices are expected to follow. Other details on price increases of dairy products are presented.

Dairy producers who left Arla Foods (AF) in 2007 after being dissatisfied with low AF prices and joined Danish Dairy (DD) that exports to the German spot market are now being paid by DD with DKr1/liter less than AF's price of DKr2.80/liter. German spot market prices for skimmed milk powder continue to decline after peaking last year.

Most of the 333 farmers who participated in Cooperatives Working Together's (CWT) fourth herd retirement this year cited high production costs as a key reason why they chose to sell [...]

The French and Italian governments are promising support for their countries' dairy farmers following recent revelations of false accounting and declaration of insolvency by Italy's biggest food processing company Parmalat, [...]

And where do the poor dairy farmers stand in all this? Nailed to the wall as usual, no doubt. As ye sow..., thegrocer.co.uk Here we go again, the farmers moaning [...]

Farmers are often accused of not really 'getting' consumers. Sure, they know a thing or two about how to feed them, but when it comes to talking to them, best [...]