News & Analysis on the Dairy Industry & Markets
Fonterra has claimed that ingredients prices are recovering and market confidence is returning as a group of US senators accuse the New Zealand-based co-op of holding a virtual monopoly of key internationally traded dairy commodities.
A UK parliamentary inquiry has outlined ways to strengthen agricultural co-ops after concluding that the Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) sowed the seeds of its eventual collapse by spending too much for tired processing assets.
Growth forecasts from Leatherhead Food International for different dairy product sectors suggest that processors have plenty to gain from investment in emerging markets.
Reducing intakes of saturated fats in the diet, and consuming polyunsaturated fats in their place, may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 19 per cent, says a new Harvard study.
Twenty-three-year-old North American organic cooperation, Organic Valley Family of Farms, has launched an omega-3 milk containing 50mg of fish oil-sourced DHA and EPA per serving.