Feed experiment aims to reduce impact of dairy cow burps
A pivotal experiment to address the impact of livestock on climate change is taking place in our backyard, as a farm in the North Bay gets closer to becoming carbon neutral. Scientists and farmers ar...Read More
Redefining Dairy and Alternatives Through Innovation
The dairy products and alternatives industry, excluding baby food, was valued at USD568 billion in 2022, growth of 8% in current terms despite a 0.6% decrease in volume. This dynamic was primarily cau...Read More
French dairy group Lactalis says profit falls as costs rise
Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy producer, said on Thursday its sales had risen by 28.4% in 2022 to 28.3 billion euros ($30.95 billion), but higher costs had pushed its annual net profit down by 14...Read More
Soaring price of milk tells us about Britain’s greedflation problem
How much is a pint of milk? It’s a question that has long been used by journalists to test whether politicians have any sense of the budgetary constraints of the people they govern. If you know the pr...Read More
A Fresh History of Lactose Intolerance
Six decades ago, Pedro Cuatrecasas, a fledgling resident at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was studying the lives of impoverished residents of Baltimore when he noticed an unsettling trend. In...Read More
Nepal’s dairy sector flags severe milk shortage
Nepali dairy industries have requested the government to lift the restriction on imports of skimmed milk powder or full cream milk powder to avert possible shortages in the domestic market. Prahlad D...Read More
GDT bounce, but gains seen fragile on weak fundamentals
Global dairy prices rebounded in Wednesday’s auction, but a sustained recovery in rates that have tumbled by a third over the past year is not on the cards due to abundant supply and reduced buying by...Read More
Dairy prices rose, volumes fell at auction – GDT Surprises
International milk prices rose while volumes fell at this month’s Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction on Tuesday. The GDT Price Index was up 3.2%, with an average selling price of $3,362 per tonne. The...Read More
How milk tamed the Third Pole-3,500-year history of dairy
It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometres of Earth’s surface. It is...Read More
Over 18000 cows die in Texas dairy farm blaze – Reuters
More than 18,000 cows died after an explosion and fire at a family dairy farm in west Texas, marking the deadliest such barn blaze on record in the United States. Firefighters rescued one employee fr...Read More
Will China continue the downtrend in dairy demand?
China plays a vital role in setting price direction on global dairy markets. During recent times, they have been buying less amid high imports in 2021 and comfortable domestic milk supplies. Farmgate...Read More
Britain’s Tesco cuts price of milk for first time since 2020
Britain’s biggest supermarket group Tesco has cut the price of milk for the first time since May 2020, a possible early sign that a surge in food inflation may abate in the coming months. In March, g...Read More