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In June of the current year the production of yoghurt, milk and cheese decreased in Ukraine. It is reported by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. The production of yoghurt and other fermented milk or cream during the reporting period compared to June 2016 declined by 6.6% and amounted to 34.8 thousand tons. Compared to May of the current year t...

Some domestic manufacturers are not interested in introduction of quality control system of foodstuff HACCP. This was stated by Executive Director of «Consumers Union of Ukraine» Maxim Nesmiyanov. He explained that dishonest businesses prefer super profit from counterfeit to quality products. «The HACCP system is really effective. It suggests that the manufacturer i...

The free trade agreement between Ukraine and Canada will start working on August 1, 2017. This was announced by Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada Andrey Shevchenko. «On Tuesday, August 1, there will officially start free trade between Ukraine and Canada: our free t...

Chinese dairy imports fly in June, with considerable increases in both quantity and valuefor cheeses, WMP, infant formula milk, butter, whey powder, cream. SMP imports grew by 45.4% while remaining stationary with reference to unit prices. In the first six months of 2017, China increased imports by 5.4% in total and by 28.8% in value on a trend basis, with an impressive boom set in June: + 27.4% compared to June of 2016....

The Mediterranean diet has long been one of the healthiest diets known to reduced various disease related complications. Although dairy products with Mediterranean diet is not recommended previously, many recent studies support the use of dairy products to offer added benefits. While dairy products can be incorporated into the Mediterranean diets, which types of dairy products needs to be done with careful consideration. For instance, there is evidence for the beneficial eff...

Although the current indicators of foreign dairy trade are well below pre-crisis 2013, Ukrainian dairy exports, compared to the period of a deep crisis of the previous two years, can be considered successful. For the first half of 2017, export of most dairy products has considerably increased, and on the background of rising prices, the foreign exchange proceeds from external sales was...

Beef demand is strong and cattle throughput is falling. Factory prices are holding firm, with cows on the increase at some plants. Numbers presenting at beef factories fell by nearly 700 head in the past week, keeping prices buo...

Italian dairy exports between January and April increased in volume (+10.2%) and in value (+11.3%) on a trend basis, while imports declined (-12.7%). The trade balance is still negative: 838,087 tons imported against the 330,663 exported, but the balance sheet has improved. In particular, imports to Italy of butter, milk and...

The year 2017 has not been good in India, because of high milk prices and low rate of  milk products. Because of this, profit margins have been low. Now from June onwards, there has been reduction in milk price and we are entering into flush season from Sept/October 2017 and milk prices look...

Cow comfort and herd management, not genetics, is limiting production in most herds, say these geneticists. With herd averages approaching 40,000 lb of milk per cow and the single lactation record nearly double that, it begs the question: Are we approaching the genetic limits of mil...