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A new manufacturing process has the potential to extend the shelf life of yoghurts while preserving live and active cultures.
The technology is a natural process that can increase the shelf-life of yoghurt to up to 90 days by killing spoilage yeast and mould, while selectively preserving live and active cultures, including probiotic bacteria, claims New Zealand dairy group Fonterra.
The worldwide yoghurt market has grown over 8 per cent annually for the past three decades, with 58 per...
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World Dairy Expo 2006 will be Oct. 3-7 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.
The theme for the show is "Dairy Central."
Things get under way with the Central National Ayrshire Show on Tuesday and culminate with the parade of champions and selection of the 2006 supreme champion on Saturday. Among this year's judges is Larry Tande of Medford, Minn. Tande will judge the Central National Brown Swiss Show.
In addition to some of the best purebred dairy cattle in the world and a trade...
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Herding cows into special cooling tunnels during hot weather could increase milk yields, says a study, after a heatwave across Britain sent milk production plummeting this summer.
Cows cooled by an evaporative tunnel produced more milk and ate up to 12 per cent more feed than those placed merely in shade or under sprinklers, says a US-based study published in October's Journal of Dairy Science.
The findings could be important for dairy firms around the world as they look to increase...
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Australia's dairy chiefs are already on the hustings reminding producers the value of their levy dollars ahead of next year's poll.
Although votes do not have to be cast until March 2007, Dairy Australia leaders yesterday reminded a gathering of Victorian producers in Gippsland of the value of levy dollars in driving on-farm productivity gains.
Dairy Australia chairman Pat Rowley says the body's role is to "inform levy payers and industry about the levy process, while the advisory...
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73HO1965 Startmore RUDOLPH EX Extra GM, one of the most popular sires in the world, passed away on September 22, 2006 at 15 years of age. Owned by the Centre d’insémination artificielle du Québec (CIAQ), one of the co-owners of The Semex Alliance, this member of the elite group of “millionaire sires” produced 1,495,303 doses of semen throughout his career.
Born from a mating between Madawaska Aerostar, EX Extra and Startmore Rachelle VG 14*, one of Butlerview Mattador’s best daughters,...
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Organic milk producers took a blow Tuesday after UK food authorities said their milk was not healthier than conventional varieties just because it contained more omega-3.
Organic milk may contain more short-chain omega-3 fatty acids than conventional milk, but this does not translate into clear nutritional benefits for consumers, said Deirdre Hutton, chair of the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), in a letter to the scientists.
A three-year study conducted at the Universities of Glasgow and...
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Mepron® supplementation during the transition phase and in early lactation increases DMI and performance of dairy cows
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As the West Australian dairy industry loses producers and suffers from poor weather conditions, some producers have found a cash reprieve by lining up their heifers for a boat ride to China, Russia and Mexico.
Elders WA have just completed a tour of the state with Mexican selectors viewing thousands of potential mated dairy heifers to fill the 30th shipment to that country.
The two-week selection process in WA saw 717 mated heifers eligible for shipping out of 3000 required...
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Dairy processors in Britain must be more adventurous on the international market if they are to compete with foreign rivals and achieve their commercial potential, says industry body Dairy UK.
Top processors such as Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman must adopt an ‘international mindset' instead of satisfying themselves with a comfortable domestic market, said David Curry MP, chairman of Dairy UK, at an industry conference in Warwickshire.
UK dairy companies have struggled to raise earnings...
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Chr. Hansen has developed six new cultures that it claims can offer yoghurt manufacturers up to 20 per cent more texture.
Launched within its Yo-flex and Nu-trish ranges, Chr Hansen hopes that the new ingredients will better position the firm to take advantage of the growing demand for low-fat, healthy yoghurts that still taste creamy.
This has become a booming market. In the UK alone, yoghurt sales are set to increase by 40 per cent over the next five years and smash the £2bn barrier by...
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America's dairy processors are increasingly seeking rBST-free dairy supplies, as the demand for additive-free foods begins to exert its influence on the market.
Last month Dean Foods, the largest processor and distributor of milk and dairy products in the country, became the latest company to offer rBST-free milk products. The company will launch the products in New England.
According to industry analyst Organic Monitor, consumers are buying more and more organic and hormone-free food...
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Russian vetinary officials are to re-start inspections of Ukrainian dairy producers on 15 September, raising hopes that an import ban imposed on the country earlier this year could be lifted.
The news comes after a meeting between Ukrainian agricultural minister, Mykola Melynyk, and his Russian counterpart, Aleksei Gordeyey in Moscow, and represents a significant thawing in relations between the two countries' agricultural bodies.
Russia banned Ukrainian dairy imports on 20 January this...
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Proposed EU legislation would define the manufacturing practices the bloc's processors would have to take in ensuring that packaging materials do not migrate into foods.
The proposal is an outcome of food safety crisis last November in which Italy's regulators discovered that a printing chemical from a Tetra Pak package was found to have migrated into a Nestlé milk product for babies.
The discovery led Italian authorities to confiscate millions of litres of Nestlé baby milk, even...
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Ireland’s dairy and ingredients giant, Glanbia, reported a dip in sales and profits for its first half of 2006, stung by cuts to EU support for the dairy sector.
Glanbia's sales dipped a little more than €3m to €922.8m in the six months ended 1 July, while operating profits slipped five per cent to €36.4m.
The group said it was hit hard at home in Ireland by the European Commission's ongoing Common Agricultural Policy reform, which has led to price cuts on dairy commodities and fewer...
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Australia’s ability to generate ideas and transform them into commercial value will be further enhanced with the opening of a new centre designed to place the Australian dairy industry at the forefront of world dairying innovation and thinking.
Research investors and dairy companies have joined forces to invest in the innovation centre, which will build a critical mass of the best minds and develop world-class manufacturing technology.
Victoria’s Minister for Innovation John Brumby...
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Mepron® supplementation during the transition phase and in early lactation increases DMI and performance of dairy cows
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ULSTER Unionist MEP, Jim Nicholson, raised the problems facing the Northern Ireland diary industry at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week.
Last week, Mr Nicholson met the Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister, David Cairns, where he raised with the Minister the serious financial difficulties facing the dairy sector in Northern Ireland, especially with the continuing fall in export refunds on dried milk powder and asked him to take personal charge of lobbying the Commission on...
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Work on the UK’s first factory able to recycle HDPE resin from plastic milk bottles for re-use in food packaging could start within a year, according to a government-funded recycling agency.
The agency, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), is hopeful that successful trials of its plan to recycle HDPE resin will bring commercial backing to build the Britain's first plant for that purpose.
Recycled HDPE resin from milk cartons is in high demand across the food industry because...
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Hans Lourens appointed Director Corporate Affairs Campina
Mr J.M.M. (Hans) Lourens (44), who has served as General Counsel for international dairy company Campina since 2002, will become Director Corporate Affairs from 1 October 2006. He succeeds Mr J.L.M.H. (Jos) Clerx (57), who has accepted an appointment as Director of Stichting Pensioenfonds Campina from 1 December 2006.
As Director Corporate Affairs, Hans Lourens acts as Secretary to the Executive Board and...
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Sales of Lurpak are expected to treble in Australia this year. To meet demand, ten containers containing Lurpak butter was recently dispatched ”down under”.
”As Lurpak is three times as expensive as local butter, our customers doubted that our products stood a chance in Australia,” says Sales Manager Lars Møller Henriksen, who is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ”Nevertheless, the excellent taste has won them - and Australian consumers - over.”
Lurpak arrived in Woolworths last year and...
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Russia has threatened to ban all Dairy exports from Poland unless its producers adhere fully to their veterinary procedures, resulting in old tensions between the two nations flaring up once more.
“We have received a warning letter from Russia about our dairy production”, confirmed Dr Kristov Yavdarsky of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The warning has echoes of similar threats made last year by Russia, which by November had led to bans of both Polish meat and...
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Vigilistics, a company serving the dairy and food processing industries with real-time operations intelligence software, announced two software modules that assist dairy plant management to achieve sustainable, environmentally friendly operation while improving dairy profitability.
Vigilistics' CIP module monitors each clean-in-place operation, and provides reports, performance assessment, notifications, and suggestions for remedial actions. The focus is on detecting abnormal or inefficient...
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