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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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DSM Food Specialties has introduced a new cheese ripening enzyme that it claims accelerates flavor development while also eliminating the bitter off-taste often formed during cheese maturation.
Designed to cut costs and improve efficiency by speeding up the cheese maturation process, DSM said trials with its new product have demonstrated a three month reduction of cheddar cheese maturation time.
According to the company, because Accelerzyme CPG is a pure enzyme, it is also the first...
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A novel scanner, which uses a mixture of ultraviolet and infrared rays to probe the content of milk, will help dairy firms and scientists to more accurately analyse products and ingredients, its inventor says.
It may look small and simplistic, but beneath that shiny surface the Spectro-Quad-Sensor is capable of using eight different wavelengths across the spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrared, to provide online product analysis every 10 seconds.
“There is no one else that can do...
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Australia's largest breed society, the Victorian State Branch of Holstein Australia, is expecting hundreds of visitors to dairy farms across the State later this month when it stages its inaugural Holstein Week.
The event will run from April 26 through to May 5, and will see dairy farms across all sections of Victoria holding farm walks and information days.
All participating farms will be open from 10.30am to 2.30pm and will include a free BBQ lunch which is being sponsored by NAB...
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Chr Hansen will get a chance to underline its increasing involvement in the dairy sector at the upcoming 2006 International Cheese Technology Exposition.
The organisers claim that the 2006 exposition will be the largest in the show's 24-year history, with over 295 booths and 180 companies displaying the latest technology and services for the cheese industry.
This should give the Danish ingredients firm ample opportunity to showcase a number of its solutions, which have been developed in...
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The fight to open international dairy markets took a major step forward this week when the US dairy industry signed with the Global Dairy Alliance (GDA) in a joint letter to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) setting out conditions on elimination of export subsidies and market access issues.
This is being hailed by Australian negotiators as a significant advance for dairy in the current WTO Doha Development Round negotiations.
Signatories to the letter are the GDA (representing the...
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Ireland is totally out of step with its dairy competitors around the world when it comes to milk recording.
New Zealand records at least 80 per cent of its cows. Closer to home, Sweden, Norway, Holland record at least 80 per cent of their cows. Sweden took a hard-line issue with milk recording, years ago and in fact, every farmer pays for milk recording in that country whether he decides to milk record or not.
Perhaps we should take similar extreme measures ourselves; milk recording is...
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A CODEX committee is meeting this week to hammer out international standards for the dairy industry, including contentious issues such as who can label their cheese as "parmesan".
The French-based Food Production Daily reports the meeting will form part of an ongoing program to create international food safety standards under the Codex Alimentarius, a body set up by the Food and Agricultural Organisation and the World Health Organisation.
This seeks to establish standards, based on...
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A printer has been launched on the market specifically designed for coding dairy products.
As it is tailor made for the dairy industry, the printer can help companies become more efficient when adding use-by dates, batch codes and other required marks for product identification, according to Linx Printing Technologies.
The company's Linx 4900DC, a continuous ink jet printer, has the capability to print in flexible 'reverse' and 'inverted' modes. It can print at up to 78 metres per...
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Monsanto Co. will boost production of a growth hormone that makes dairy cows produce more milk after receiving federal approval to make the drug entirely in the United States, the company said Monday.
The move will reduce manufacturing time for the hormone, Posilac, allowing the agricultural products company to supply more and boost its customer base among dairy farmers, spokesman Andrew Burchett said.
Burchett said Monsanto has a waiting list of dairy farmers waiting to buy doses of...
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Milk production levels in the United Kingdom continue to slow down compared with the three-year average.
The recent cold weather is likely to have had a significant influence on production as many farmers would normally start putting cows out to grass at this time of the year.
"At the current weekly rate of increased production it appears unlikely there will be a significant spring peak," said an MDC Datum spokesman.
Production in the week ended March 11, 2006, was 250.1 million litres....
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Greek researchers have isolated three strains of bacteria from dairy sources that have desirable probiotic properties and could be applied in the food industry.
Probiotics remains a major growth market. The European sector is set to more than triple in value over the next few years, according to Frost & Sullivan, to reach $137.9 million (€118.5m) in 2010.
Researchers from the Agricultural University of Athens screened 29 different strains of Lactobacillus from diverse dairy sources, such...
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