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As of December 1, 1,380,000 cows are kept in Ukraine, which is 13.9% or 233.7 thousand less than last year. During the full-scale invasion, Ukraine lost 172,700 cows. According to preliminary data from the State Statistics Service, which do not include data on the currently occupied regions, the industrial sector (dairy farms) lost 37,700 cows. However, acco...

The president of the Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine (AMP) Andriy Dykun and the director of the Ukrainian National Agrarian Forum Mariia Didukh met with the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson. The meeting was initiated and organized by the team of the Ukrainian Agri Council. The parties discussed the current situation in the Ukrainian agricultural sector, the deepening global food crisis and possible options for cooperation, in particular, the creation of a...

The milk market in the first decade of December was expectedly characterized by stability. Although the average values in the section of grades showed a minimal increase, the range remained unchanged. This is reported by Yana Linetska, the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers. However, since the beginning of November, due to the deterioration of the glo...

The leading Polish biofuel platform, Biomass Media Group, published the expert opinion of Andriy Dykun, president of the Association of Milk Producers and founder of the #SAVEUA charitable foundation, regarding the prospects for biomethane production in Ukraine. Ukraine is already developing legislative regulation of biomethane production, in which the agric...

Despite the seasonal decline in export sales, shipments of dairy products in 2022 remain the highest in recent years. World prices for dairy products fell for the fifth month in a row, due to a number of factors. The first is a sharp reduction in imports from the largest con...

Despite the difficult wartime conditions, industrial farms continue to work on animal productivity, quality and safety of raw milk. According to estimated data, in the three quarters of 2022, processing enterprises received 2,056.2 thousand tons of raw milk, which is 15.3% less than in 2021. It is important that the reduction of s...

At the end of the year, the raw milk market seems to be entering a «quiet period». The activation of foreign trade in summer and early autumn made it possible to visually accelerate the prices of milk in the domestic market. However, compared to European ones, they still remain a third lower. This is reported by Yana Linetska, the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers. However, since the beginning of November, due to the deterioration of the glo...

In the second half of October, purchase prices for milk from industrial farms continued their upward trend. This is reported by Yana Linetska, the analyst of the Association of Milk Producers. Price support was created by demand from processors, in particular cheese makers,...

The invaders are attacking the country's energy system. How does this affect the operation of the dairy farm and the cost of raw milk? Do milk producers have an action plan in case of force majeure? Replies the director of the company Dmytro Solomakha. At the farm of LLC Peremoha, member of Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine since 2015, are kept 800 cows, 20 tons of milk are sent for processing plants every day. A...

Ukraine annually feeds about 400 million people around the world. This means that the continuation of the «Grain Agreement» is important for all the countries in order to prevent a global food crisis. We must extend «grain corridor» functioning with the support of international partners. Therefore, on October 20, representatives of the associations Ukrainian Agri Council, Ukrainian Agribusiness Club and Ukrainian Grain Association signed a joint appeal to UN Secret...