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Arla Foods has bought up speciality cheesemaker Tholstrup in its native Denmark, as the group looks to expand its cheese export business amid rising competition.
Arla said it had signed a deal to buy family-owned Tholstrup Cheese, which is best known for its Castello and Saga cheese brands and has sales of DKK830m. No sum was disclosed.
The deal, if approved by competition watchdogs, will give Arla an important new inroad into increasingly competitive cheese markets across Europe and the...
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Adding riboflavin-producing bacteria to standard yoghurt could boost the nutritional value and cut costs of conventional fortification, suggests a joint Argentine-Dutch study.
“The use of riboflavin-producing strains in the production of dairy products such as fermented milk, yoghurt, and cheese is feasible and economically attractive because it would decrease the costs involved during conventional vitamin fortification and satisfy consumer demands for healthier foods,” explained lead author...
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One of New Zealand's most respected dairy figures, John Luxton, a large scale dairy farmer and former NZ Agriculture Minister, has told the World Dairy Leaders' Conference in Queensland that high productivity is the key to success.
Mr Luxton, who is a partner in a number of dairy business on farms in the Waikato region of NZ, says that Australian farms face significant challenges from low cost overseas producers, environmental pressures and a diminishing influence over politicians.
And...
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The Australian dairy industry has developed an on-farm resource kit, highlighting its commitment to good dairy practices, which will be delivered to every dairy farmers in the country over the coming week.
Queensland dairy farmer and industry animal welfare spokesman, Wes Judd, says every dairy farmer in Australia is encouraged to use the information supplied in the kit.
"It has been produced to ensure farmers, as well as national and international customers, recognise the Australian...
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A new aseptic packaging machine is designed to target what the manufacturer says is a growing demand for single serve coffee creamers.
To meet the growing demand for single serve coffee creamers, Tetra Pak yesterday said it would introduce a new packaging line for its Tetra Classic Aseptic 20 ml package.
The new Tetra Pak A1/Mini operates at about double the speed of an earlier version, increasing output to 21,600 packages per hour for the 20 ml package from 9,000 packages per hour for...
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Fane Valley chief executive, David Graham, has told Farming Life that this week's United Dairy Farmers' milk auction prices are an accurate reflection of the growing pressure on international dairy markets at the present time.
For the second successive month, the average price at the United Dairy Farmers' milk auction was two pence per litre down on last year's levels.
At this month's auction, held on Thursday, the average price was 17.61 pence per litre, an increase of 0.24ppl on the May...
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Modification of whey protein concentrates with high phospholipid proportions could turn standard emulsifiers into functional health promoting ingredients, results that could have important implications for the food industry.
Whey proteins from cows milk are used as emulsifiers in a broad range of food products including ice creams, beverages, salad dressing and sports supplements, and are classified as either concentrates (protein content between 25 and 80 per cent) or isolates (more than 90...
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Australian Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle are attracting interest from overseas buyers because of their performance and ability to adapt to local conditions.
Australian Minister for Agriculture, Peter McGauran, last night addressed the Holstein-Friesian Association of Australia in Sale, Victoria.
Mr McGauran said one of the reasons for the overseas buying interest was the association’s ‘Maternal Might Team’, an exceptional group of 12 young bulls.
Selected for their production,...
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Milk producers have renewed their fierce criticism of low farmgate prices in Britain, as the country’s competition watchdog prepares to open an in-depth probe into the market practices of top supermarkets.
The Office of Fair Trading this week succumbed to four years of pressure from politicians, suppliers and environmental organisations by asking the Competition Commission to investigate Britain's top grocery retailers.
It is the first time Britain's big four – Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's...
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There's been record interest in robotic milking around the world, according to Dutch manufacturer, Lely.
During the first 14 weeks of 2006, the company has sold the same number of robot systems as the whole of 2005.
"We anticipate 2006 will be our best year ever," CEO Alexander van der Lely said.
"We are very pleased with the rapid acceptance of our totally new concept in milking, technology, namely the Astronaut A3 robotic milking system."
Lely says dairy farmers increasingly...
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Launch of test project with 100 dairy farmers and feed suppliers for online insight into feed flows.
International dairy cooperative Campina has announced plans over the coming months to further fulfil quality assurance requirements for the feed purchased by Campina dairy farmers. Campina will develop and expand the requirements for supplementary quality certification, launch a test project to electronically monitor feed flows and present a method of giving dairy...
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The French government has set aside an extra €10m to aid consolidation and restructuring in the country’s dairy industry so far in 2006, continuing its interventionist strategy for the sector.
Dominique Bussereau, French agriculture minister, announced he had cleared the extra state aid to “support the restructuring of the dairy industry to make it more competitive”.
The funding shows how France has continued to take a more interventionist stance in promoting dairy sector consolidation....
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The European Commission has raised export subsidies available for butter for the second month running, bowing to pressure from member states concerned at volatile markets.
The Commission's Milk Management Committee has agreed to increase the common subsidy available for butter exports by three per cent to €99.5 per 100kg. Subsidies for butter exports in the Commission's ‘tender' system were also increased.
Both British and Irish dairy industry associations have been warning for some...
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A pay-per-sample scheme introduced for a milk-testing laboratory in Germany could be offered to other customers across Europe, said Foss Analytical.
The company says the scheme allows food testing laboratories to spread, and ultimately reduce analysis costs.
Foss entered into the new payment scheme with a major central milk testing laboratory, Milchprüfring Bayern (MPR), in Germany. The scheme will be implemented over the next five years.
It covers the renewal of several instruments...
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The UK dairy industry could profit from a drop in milk production, said the chief executive of Arla UK on Tuesday, enabling the industry to add value and raise earnings through the supply chain.
Tim Smith, Arla UK's chief executive, said cutting one billion litres out of Britain's milk production could help those remaining in the sector work more profitably. He said there was too much milk on the UK market.
His comments, originally reported by Scotland's Herald newspaper, were later...
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The future for camel milk is so bright that the FAO predicts that the dairy product could appear one day on European supermarket shelves.
But certain structural problems must first be overcome. Although demand from the Sahara to Mongolia is booming, the 5.4 million tonnes produced every year isn't enough to go round.
The FAO is confident however that investment within the sector - not only at local level - can help camel milk meet demand and even move into lucrative...
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Tetra Pak’s own packaging machines could soon be used against it, after rival group Alternapak claimed it had found a way to run its own packaging reels on Tetra Pak production lines.
Alternapak said its new Alterna Switch, unveiled at the Anuga FoodTec expo, bypasses the patented barcode system on Tetra Brik machines.
Turning the switch on will make the Tetra Brik machine think it is using packaging reels from Tetra Pak when in reality it is using Alternapak reels.
The technology...
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The Australian dairy sector, which relies heavily on exports for its viability, is likely to face stiff market competition from a resurgent US dairy industry.
According to an analysis in the April issue of Australian Farm Journal, US dairy farmers are changing their approach to business structure and productivity.
Rabobank's senior dairy analyst, Tim Hunt, said US dairy farms were becoming larger and more professional businesses, similar to what was happening in Australia and in New...
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Delta Instruments has launched new state-of-the-art dairy analysis equipment designed to enable processors to make more money out of milk and milk derivatives.
The Netherlands-based company claims that the LactoScope FTIR Advanced, which incorporates the latest technologies and software platforms available, achieves this because it focuses on ease of use.
“The Lactoscope FTIR Advanced has been developed together with laboratory staff and production operators in the dairy industry," said...
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GEA Group, one of the largest machine companies at the Anuga FoodTech exhibition, has released a number of liquid filling and processing machines through its subsidiaries.
GEA has sales of about €4.5 billion a year. At the show, Joachim Haase. managing director of subsidiary, Tuchenhagen Dairy Systems, demonstrated the UHT-Technik, a machine that looks like a hollow block of stainless steel pipes. The machine processes raw milk to produce a UHT product. The pipes are specially designed to...
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