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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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Evaluation of the safety of an algal biomass as an ingredient for finishing cattle
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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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NMR is introducing the United Kingdom's first individual cow milk urea test.
Targeted at producers, vets and nutritionists, the test is an accurate measure of urea levels and provides results that can be used to improve ration formulation, health and fertility in dairy cows.
"Milk urea tests are already cared out on bulk tank samples," says NMR's Mike Blanshard. "While these are useful for milk buyers, they can be very misleading if used for cow management.
"A herd average can mask...
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Chr Hansen is looking to tap the highly lucrative organic food market with a new range of dairy flavours made from real milk, cream, and cheese.
The Danish-based firm says that the ingredients should enable food makers to create foods labelled 'organic' or 'made with organic ingredients.'
The company's portfolio includes butter, cheese, cream, ethnic, fermented, and Italian profiles for use in process cheese, sauces, dips, snacks, microwave foods, and dressings.
"Chr Hansen dairy...
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Cutting edge research will be laid before Europe’s dairy industry in Brussels this autumn, when scientists from around the world will discuss how the genetic make-up of milk affects human health.
The third, international Symposium on Milk Genomics and Human Health will be held in Brussels on 19-21 September.
The meeting will pull together scientists from around the world to discuss progress on understanding the genetic make-up of milk, and how this could benefit dairy industry...
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Glanbia has blamed EU dairy sector restructuring and upheavals in the Irish market for a disappointing financial performance in 2005.
The international dairy foods and nutritional ingredients group, which announced its full year results for the year ended 31 December 2005 yesterday, said that a difficult year in Ireland was the principal cause of the firms poor results.
The firm's Irish operations continued to be affected by a combination of ongoing EU reform, inflationary pressures and...
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Tetra Pak has rolled out it’s A3/Flex packaging line worldwide, claiming no other carton packaging line around can offer food producers the same versatility.
The group said its A3/Flex line was now available across the globe. It claimed the machine could produce up to 22 different packages, more than any other carton ambient packaging line available today.
The line's use of Tetra Pak's ‘QuickChange' technology allows customers to change package sizes with the same bottom base in just 15...
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The competition for milk supply, the impact of cultural differences and ongoing effects of an unstable economy are some of the issues faced by South America’s dairy farmers.
Four farmers and a milk processor representative are visiting factories and meeting government and industry officials in the major dairying regions of Mercosur as part of a 20-day study tour sponsored by the Gardiner Foundation and organised with Dairy Australia.
Mid-way through the tour are farmers Wayne Weller of...
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Semen sales hit record highs in 2005 at Select Sires Inc., North America’s largest artificial insemination cooperative.
Sales exceeded 8.7 million units of dairy- and beef-breed semen, marking a 6 percent increase over 2004 and the top sales year in federation history.
International sales in 87 countries also pushed totals upward more than 9 percent over last year to approximately 1.9 million units, claiming the second-highest sales year on record for worldwide sales. Leading markets...
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‘s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) and Klerken (Belgium) take over production of butter and butter oil from Aalter (Belgium).
Campina, one of Europe’s major producers of butter and butter oil, is to invest in the production of butter and butter oil. These investments will lead to further optimisation of the production process and enable the introduction of new products. Campina is investing in new technology and the expansion of production at its butter plant in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (the...
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A 2006 national survey of Australian dairy farmers will give the dairy industry an opportunity to provide vital input into its "health report" and influence policies for the future.
Dairy Australia will poll 1300 farmers between now and March 24 as part of the industry's annual planning cycle.
The phone-based survey was first conducted in 2004 when industry leaders identified the need for a clear and realistic picture of the industry's condition and future challenges in the aftermath...
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Scientists have discovered new methods to isolate and maintain large numbers of bovine embryonic stem cells, with major implications for advanced breeding technologies in dairy cattle.
Dairy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) scientists have made the discovery, that should apply to other livestock, as well as to dairy cattle.
At the Dairy Science 2006 conference in Mt Gambier, SA, Dr Paul Verma, from the Monash Institute of Medical Research, said stem cells are cells that have not yet...
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Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest dairy co-operative, has formed a research partnership with the US dairy industry, in an international approach to promoting and proving health claims for dairy products.
Fonterra has linked up with America's Dairy Management Inc (DMI) to fund research into whey protein.
The alliance aims to build the foundations for substantiating future health claims for marketing dairy products containing whey. It will establish a ‘seed fund' to help US researchers get...
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Injecting a sugar into cows' udders to mobilize an immune system response may give producers an alternative to antibiotics for fighting mastitis.
In trials at the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., scientists Max Paape and Douglas Bannerman showed that injecting cows with the yeast sugar Poly-x reduced mastitis infection at one-twelfth the cost of antibiotics.
Their patent-pending approach is based on prior studies at the lab...
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Manufacturers in Britain are cutting more and more jobs as rising raw material costs and difficulties passing these on through the supply chain continue to squeeze profit margins, says a new report.
Around 25,000 jobs have been cut across Britain's manufacturing industry, including food, over the last three months, according to new figures from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
It said that meant 106,000 job losses in the last year “as employers sought to counter the...
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