dairy prices
Emmi reports improved sales in first half of 2018
In the first six months of 2018, dairy giant Emmi has done well and generated consolidated sales of CHF1,675 million (€1.5bn) compared to CHF1,600 million in the same period of 2017.
Signs of the times
The International Farm Comparison Network has been busy analysing the world’s dairy prices, and concluded that the milk price recovery is well underway now.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Time to get serious about leaving
Arla Food UK’s managing director Tomas Pietrangeli has posted his version of Luther’s 95 theses about Brexit, in a call to action for both the farming and the processing community in the UK.
Supply drop starts to bite, says Rabobank
Milk supply from dairy export regions has fallen sharply, by 2.6m tonnes in the second half of 2016, with milk volumes from Oceania and Europe severely challenged, according to agricultural bank Rabobank’s Dairy Quarterly Q4 2016 report.
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EU predicts price recovery for dairy
The European Commission says EU milk supply growth slowed down and EU milk deliveries are expected to be below last year in the second half of 2016.
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Off the bottom
I was listening to Kevin Bellamy this morning on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today, explaining why not all the British processors had trickled through the recent price gains to farmers.
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After the darkness
Rabobank’s Top 20 was released last week, and showed the effects of the downturn on the top processors globally in 2015. Now that milk prices are finally firming up, it is a snapshot of how the industry has weathered the downturn.
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Where dairy dares
An interview with Jan Maartin Vrij, chair of the Dutch organising committee of the World Dairy Summit.
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Fonterra announces 2016 interim results
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited has announced a good performance in the first half of the current financial year, with normalised earnings of $665 (€596) million up 77% on the comparable period, and net profit of $409 (€366) million up 123%.
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Fonterra revises milk forecast
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited has reduced its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the 2015/16 season from €2.54 per kgMS to €2.39 per kgMS.
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Fonterra responds to rating drop
Fonterra Co-operative Group has been notified that rating agency Standard and Poor’s has downgraded its rating from A to A-.
Arla predicts success in interim report
Globally declining milk prices are currently causing problems for Arla Foods, but its 2015 interim report projects success for the future.
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Rabobank says NZ will ride out the storm
The recent collapse in dairy prices does not equate to long-term structural market change in the sector, according to industry analysts Rabobank.
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Still more milk than market, says Rabobank
The world is still producing more milk than the market currently needs. This imbalance is unlikely to be substantially corrected in the second half of 2015, according to the Rabobank Dairy Quarterly.
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