Higher stocks keep lid on milk prices
U.S. dairy farmers continued to rein in year-over-year increases in milk production in November, but markets aren’t responding.
Production pressure sees Rabobank lowering farm gate milk price forecast despite another small lift in recent GDT auction results
Despite a continued slow-down in milk supply growth across the “Big 7” dairy exporting regions in the final quarter of 2018, exceptionally strong New Zealand milk production in recent months has seen Oceania commodity prices drift lower and a weaker New Zealand milk price of NZD 6.25kg/MS is now forecast for 2018/19, according to Rabobank’s latest Dairy Quarterly report.
Westland Milk loan heightens PGF slush fund suspicions
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones’s $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund has the laudable aim of enhancing development opportunities in the regions. But National’s Paul Goldsmith’s dogged unanswered questioning inevitably raises the spectre that the fund may be little more than Jones’s slush fund. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, which administers the fund, […]
Chinese dairy company under investigation after children pour out free school milk
Authorities will look into whether Hunan Xiangmi Dairy falsely presented itself as an authorised supplier to 110,000 pupils
It has been barred from supplying products to schools and samples are being tested for quality
Ohio dairy returning to ‘more intimate’ option: bottled milk
On 100 acres of pasture tucked in the rolling hills, sits a barn just six minutes outside of Belpre and Little Hocking.
It’s called Twin Pines Dairy, and that’s where a family of five is forging a new path down an old-fashioned road.
80 milk producers quit in two months – the start of a trend?
More than 80 English and Welsh milk producers left the sector in October and November, a greater number than in the whole of the preceding 12 months.
Why Rabobank dropped its forecast milk price
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Bega share price sours as farm gate milk price rises hit earnings
Bega Cheese chairman Barry Irvin has blamed the failure of the east coast grain harvest and increased competition for dairy shortages that will force it to pay more for milk and eat into earnings.
Australian milk production lowest in two decades
AUSTRALIAN milk production is likely to be the lowest level in more than 20 years, says the nation’s government agricultural forecaster.
Rise of 1, 7% in dairy price
Global Dairy Trade Event 226 concluded with the GDT Price Index up 1.7%