Can You Eat Cheese When You Have High Cholesterol?
We love cheese. Cheese consumption has nearly doubled in the average American household over the past four decades, according to data from the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. But if you have high cholesterol, is cheese still on the table, so to speak? We get it. It’s a valid concern, given that the Centers for Disease […]
What Can the Dairy Industry Do to Fight Hunger?
I have seen many advertisements and public service announcements lately about food insecurity. It’s difficult to grasp the scope of this national issue in terms of what I can do, or what the dairy industry can do. Let’s first focus on Pennsylvania and the needs within our borders. The problem seems too big otherwise. According […]
Milk inflation is still stubbornly high at 10.9% in May
India’s consumer inflation could moderate further from April’s 18-month low of 4.7%, with food price rise likely to have cooled further in May even as prices of some items like milk, rice and pulses moved up on a month-on-month basis, economists reckoned. The National Statistical Office will release the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May next […]
Big Fall in FAO Dairy Price Index prevented by Chinese purchase
The FAO Dairy Price Index averaged 124.6 points in April, down 2.2 points (1.7 percent) from March and 22.1 points (15.1 percent) from its level one year ago. In April, international prices of milk powders fell for the tenth consecutive month, primarily underpinned by the impact of the persistent slack global import demand. Increased purchases by […]
November saw moderation in inflation but not in all the states
Retail inflation measured by the year-on-year change in Consumer Price Index (CPI) moderated sharply to 5.88 percent in November from 6.7 percent in October. This is the first print below 6 per cent, the upper threshold since January this year. The decline was due to moderation in food prices. Food prices eased on account of […]
