Gulfood, being the world’s largest annual food and beverage exhibition, promotes trade and commerce and attracts food and beverage professionals from across the globe. Taking place at Dubai World Trade Centre on Feb 18th-22nd, this year’s exhibition promises to be the best yet; bringing together insights and activities to facilitate decision making processes of global…
Dairy farmers substantially decreased their costs of milk production in 2015, according to new results in the International Farm Comparison Network’s (IFCN) Dairy Report 2016. Strong cost reductions took place in Western Europe and Central and Eastern European countries due to exchange rate and post-quota effects, while costs were stable or rising in China, India and…
GLOBAL – A global growth in milk demand of more than 20 million tonnes per year is expected to continue until 2025, according to the new Long-term Dairy Outlook from IFCN Dairy. IFCN estimates the global milk demand growth of 25 per cent over 10 years or 2.3 per cent per year. The key driver…
Another September has ended, and with it, School Milk Day, a celebration of dairy in schools worldwide. Since its launch in 2000, World School Milk Day has grown to become an event that is celebrated in over 40 different countries around the world. This year, events ranged from contests and sporting events, to campaigns to…
Display cases and grocery stores increasingly use LED lights, and that’s bad news for milk drinkers, according to a new study. Cornell University researchers in the Department of Food Science found that exposure to light-emitting diode (LED) sources for even a few hours degrades the perceived quality of fluid milk, more so than the microbial…
With Ramadan — the month-long Muslim fasting holiday that runs from June 5 to July 5 — set to begin next week, now is the perfect time to learn about the Muslim way of eating (and not eating). All around the site this month, we’re engaging in a spirit of curiosity, answering your questions about…
The global dairy market outlook will remain weak throughout 2016, but with more upward pressure on prices as we head into 2017, according to the Rabobank Global Dairy Quarterly Q1 2016 report. Global dairy commodity US dollar prices have continued to stumble along a market floor largely determined by the level of EU intervention support.…
Glanbia Co-operative Society, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Rabobank and Finance Ireland has announced the planned creation of a new €100 million ‘Glanbia MilkFlex Fund’. The fund will offer flexible, competitively priced loans to Glanbia milk suppliers with loan repayments, which can vary according to movements in milk price. This is the first fund of…
The Natural Products Expo West in California with its 3,000 exhibitors and 77,000 retail visitors, had something for everyone last week. The range covered everything from microorganisms to the farm as a super-organism, to full-fat dairy and using every bit of the process for products. One of the exciting trends for dairy was full fat…
UK – The UK government’s new healthy eating guide has caused controversy in the dairy industry after it revised targets for dairy consumption down to 8 per cent of the daily diet, from a previous figure of 15 per cent. Commenting on Public Health England’s new Eatwell guide, Dr Judith Bryans, Chief Executive of Dairy…