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According to Mintel Global Market Navigator, ice cream retailers are scooping up the profits despite a chilly economy, as the combined value of the top five European markets (France, Germany, [...]

Mother Dairy has announced that it has raised prices of two milk variants in Delhi and the national capital region from 4 Jul 2010 as the deficit monsoon in 2009 [...]

Byline: Dean Best Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods will see its dairy margins improve in the second quarter of 2010 after suffering from high raw milk costs in the first part of the [...]

The majority of dairy products in West Germany are supplied from domestic production, with imports and exports relatively small in comparison with total market size. Analysis of general production trends [...]

With vet costs varying hugely between farms, Promar national dairy consultant Derek Gardner suggests a more proactive approach to disease management might be one area where farmers could reduce production [...]

Dairy giant Arla Foods today (16 November) hinted that it is looking at cutting costs in select parts of its business - despite news of 'significant' investment in the UK. [...]

Byline: just-food.com Dairy Farm International Holdings, the pan-Asian retailer, revealed yesterday (12 November) that slowing food inflation had weighed on sales growth. The company, which runs almost 5,000 stores in [...]

Byline: just-food.com Dean Food has insisted that investments in its 'transformational' US$300m cost-cutting programme are key in differentiating the US dairy group from the rest of the market. Speaking to [...]

RESULTS: Animal breeding group Genus believes that it's well placed to benefit from an imminent agricultural market recovery. The US government's decision last year to subsidise ethanol production - to [...]

The Australian dairy industry could be poised for recovery, the chief executive of the South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association has said. Speaking to just-food, Ken Lyons said that 'most industry people' [...]

With so many shoppers trimming their household budgets, it's been a difficult year for many premium-priced brands. However, products that highlight special production claims are holding out surprisingly well in [...]

A 'solid' market performance and 'rigorous' cost control boosted Swiss dairy group Emmi's 2008 profit by 42.3%, the company said today (8 April). For the 12-month period, Emmi posted a [...]

Of the 5 billion to be taken from unused appropriations under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2008 and 2009 for the EU economic recovery plan, the European Commission has [...]

The implementation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) rules from January 2009 brings a heavy financial cost for many dairy farmers. Michael Finch reports. Many dairy farmers whose cattle produce milk [...]

The solid waste problem is enlarging the niche for returnable glass milk bottles In Steve Rasmussen's opinion, last April's Earth Day was a big turning point. That's when his company's [...]

Frozen yogurt is growing, but these days it's more up than out The frozen yogurt industry once boasted phenomenal growth, to the point that The Country's Best Yogurt (TCBY) was [...]

* Community Food's #1.8 million profit By Howard Walsh COMMUNITY Foods, the company bought as an investment by Milk Marque in 2006, will be floated on a minor stock market [...]

Fonterra, New Zealand's large dairy coop, reports an 11.8% fall in milk powder prices at its latest internet auction, as financial market turmoil and an economic slowdown hit demand. The [...]

Despite the recent tumult in the topsy-turvy world of banking, British milk producers who can make a good case for capital investment are unlikely to have trouble raising the finance, [...]

DAIRY Crest could be forced to cut staff and close some of its processing plants on the back of increased pressure from rising input costs and the gloomy economic outlook. [...]

Byline: just-food.com Dairy Crest said today (30 September) that first-half trading was in line with expectations despite increasingly difficult economic conditions and rising input costs. 'Our markets have become more [...]

Byline: Dominique Patton Investors should avoid the Chinese dairy sector, as it will face higher costs in the wake of the melamine contamination scandal, according to investment bank JPMorgan Chase. [...]

Dairy breeders are being given the opportunity to take up the latest technology with sexed semen at affordable prices at the Dairy Event. High ranking Holstein bulls Dillon, Pomeroy and [...]

California's got milk. Big time. Its dairy industry generated $61.4 billion in economic activity in the state and produced a record 41 billion pounds of milk during 2007, according to [...]

French dairy group Bongrain has posted a significant drop in profits for the first half of the year as a result of 'difficult' conditions in the dairy sector and the [...]

Robin Schmahl The dairy markets continue to set new records and this past week was no exception. The barrel cheese price fell apart on Wednesday, July 30, falling a record [...]

Italian dairy group Parmalat saw its profit fall 10.4% in the first half as a result of rising milk prices and strong inflationary pressure in South Africa and Central and [...]

UK dairy processor Milk Link has reported an 8.2% rise in EBITDA thanks to higher turnover and cost reduction measures. EBITDA totalled GBP30.5m (US$60.24m) in the year ended 29 March, [...]

RESULTS: Soaring fuel and packaging costs have taken their toll on the milk processor Last year was a tough one for Robert Wiseman Dairies. For a start, the performance of [...]

Although you are faced with daunting feed costs challenges, be careful how you respond and the potential impact on production, says University of Illinois Extension dairy specialist Mike Hutjens. For [...]

Over the last decade the price of fertiliser has risen three fold relative to that of milk. Promar's consultant Derek Gardner considers what dairy farmers can do to cope with [...]

The cost of agricultural inputs has risen by more than 7% in the past year, says agricultural buying group Anglia Farmers. The dairy sector was worst hit, facing an average […]

Robert Wiseman Dairies said today (30 December) that global dairy commodity prices had begun to fall a but warned that pressure from plastic and oil costs remained on the business. [...]

THE high cost of milk quota is one of the main factors limiting expansion of cow numbers on Canadian farms, said Ben Loewith of Summitholm Holsteins, Lynden, Ontario. He said [...]

To manage risk, control variation Whether we consider milk price, feed costs or other input costs, we must first be able to manage variation before we can predict the outcome [...]

Byline: Chris Walkland Increased costs of production are eating up a large chunk of the recent rise in farm-gate milk prices, according to new figures from Kite Consulting. The firm's […]

UK dairy firm Robert Wiseman Dairies has shrugged off rising costs with a set of robust half-year results. The company, which supplies milk to the likes of Tesco and Sainsburyas, [...]

New regulations force California dairies to rethink nutrient management by Catherine Merlo Recently enacted regulations in California mandate a nearly impossible requirement for the stateaCOs dairies: Nutrients from manure cannot [...]

Byline: just-food.com Higher dairy costs have slashed quarterly profits at US giant Kraft Foods. The Philadelphia cheese maker posted third-quarter operating profit of US$981m, a fall of almost 28% on [...]

High milk prices would have seen farmers at this week's cancelled Dairy Event in buoyant mood. Jonathan Long and Chrissie Lawrence round up what they would have learned Higher feed […]

Milk prices are increasing due to rising corn prices used in animal feed, strong worldwide demand for milk and whey and a drought in Australia, which is a major milk [...]

Pressured by rising milk prices and an industry oversupply of organic milk, the nation's leading producer of milk and dairy products has lowered its 2007 earnings expectations. Dean Foods today [...]

Incorrect non-fat dry milk price information reported by one firm the last three weeks of March will cost dairy producers at least $6.4 million in Class IV prices in March [...]

Wisconsin Governor Doyle will propose a 10% investment tax credit to modernize dairy manufacturing facilities in his 2007-2009 budget address this evening. The Dairy Plant Investment Tax Credit would be [...]

WASHINGTON - By one estimate, annual sales of fresh produce could get at least a $500 million lift, with the inclusion of fresh fruits and vegetables in the Special Supplemental [...]

CONSUMERS ADVISED TO AVOID RAW OYSTERS FROM PNW WASHINGTON - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week advised consumers to avoid eating raw oysters harvested in the Pacific Northwest [...]

For Mississippi cattlemen and dairies, the big money lost to Katrina's wrath was in damage to barns and fencing. 'I'm guessing 90 percent of our damages are in those two [...]