The E-college for Regenerative Agriculture is a new course providing farmers with up to date, scientific information regarding practices that improve the soil, yield, and the environment.
Growing consumption and demand for more sustainable packaging is boosting the need for new innovations. To develop solutions for packaging today and into the future, Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, has started up operations in its new Excellence Centre...
The new Osuuskunta Maitosuomi cooperative in Finland has started its operations upon the merger of the Osuuskunta ItäMaito and Maitosuomi cooperatives.
In 2000, Finland’s Competition and Consumer Agency, or KKV, imposed a milk quota on the dairy cooperative Valio, requiring it to supply its competitors with 185m liters of raw milk or components per year.
In December, the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland (KHO) fined Valio €70m ($74m) for abusing its dominant market position by selling basic milk at too low a price from 2010-2012 in Finland.
Valio insist that there will "no shortage" of quark in Finnish supermarkets this Easter, despite growing demand from Russia and Sweden for the creamy, high-protein product.
Scandinavia's Arla Foods has bought nearly a third of Finnish dairy
company Ingman Foods, as consolidation continues to run apace in
the European dairy sector.
Finland's Raisio Group is boosting its R&D capabilities as it
seeks to turn itself into a major player in functional and health
foods and food diagnostics.
Fortifying wheat flour with iron appears to have little effect on
improving intake of the mineral, suggests a report in this month's
European Journal of Nutrition.
Nestlé is continuing to strengthen its position in the global ice
cream market with the formation of a joint venture in Sweden, a
market where it has not been present before now. The Glasskiosken
venture with Ingman Foods aims to...
Finnish food and ingredients firm Raisio has recently announced the
sale of its Carlshamn Mejeri ice cream business to Sweden-based
Ahus Glass, which is currently part of Finland's Ingman Foods.
Finnish food group Valio claims to have produced a new low-fat
cheese without the rubbery texture often associated with many light
products. Polar 5 also has a lower salt content than many low-fat
cheeses.
