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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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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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Scientists are using DNA extraction to build a quality 'ID card' for Andalusian goat's cheese, potentially offering a new way of proving the safety and quality of speciality products.
The Spanish researchers will attempt to characterise the bacterial strains in two different types of the cheese. They will then monitor the products throughout the ripening process to understand how the micro-organisms interact and change.
The study, run by the Department of Microbiology at the University...
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A major Victorian beef company has announced it will pay $200 a head for week-old bobby calves next year.
The Ballan-based Beefcorp will increase its price from $170 to $200 for calves of Holstein females artificially inseminated to Beefcorp Wagyu bulls.
Beefcorp managing director, Nick Sher, said dairyfarmers should now be considering locking in the forward price for bull and heifer calves delivered in 2007.
He said as far as he knew, it was the highest price ever offered in...
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China has sent back more than 100 metric tons of American milk powder after it was found to contain potentially dangerous levels of nitrite.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said that 102 tons of milk powder, worth US$200,000, had been returned to US manufacturer West Farm (Darigold).
Three batches of the powder imported by a Chinese company had registered nitrite levels of 2.7mg/kg, 2.8 mg/kg and 4.4mg/kg. China's national safety limit for...
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Leading carton maker Tetra Pak will double capacity at its Beijing factory, it said yesterday, allowing it to meet the expected ongoing growth in China's dairy sector.
The company announced it would spend €30 million on a second laminator at the Beijing plant, which it opened in 2004.
The firm will be able to produce 16 billion packages a year when the new equipment starts production in the first quarter of 2007.
The Swedish firm has now invested CNY2 billion in China since it arrived...
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On July 31, 2006 the Ayrshire breed bid fairwell to the famous Blackaddar herd. This herd’s incredible influence has certainly been immeasurable, as many great bulls including Lord Ontario, Milk Machine, Milkman, Patrick and of course BB Kellogg carry the Blackaddar prefix.
When the final gavel was struck down, Terrace Bank Farms of Howick, Quebec had bought a total of 16 head, including three of the top five sellers. One of their purchases, Blackaddar Olympic Model EX-92, topped the...
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It was announced yesterday that scientists have successfully mapped the most extensive cow genetic sequence - bringing and end to a three year project that is promising to revolutionize the beef and dairy industry.
The mapping of the bovine genome will make it possible to improve the health and disease management of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dairy products.
Researchers believe it will allow producers to “achieve as much improvement in cattle breeding and...
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