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Exposing cheese to round-the-clock music could give it more flavor and hip hop might be better than Mozart, Swiss researchers said on Thursday. Nine wheels of Emmental cheese weighing 10 kilos (22 pounds) each were placed in separate wooden crates last September to test the impact of music on flavor and aroma. The...

In February there was no clear price trend in the market of butter in Ukraine. Traders are not yet ready to raise prices for Ukrainian butter reasoning this with the price in Europe and availability of the alternative cheaper offers to Africa from other expor...

Dairy product prices increased at the Global Dairy Trade auction, moving higher for the seventh straight time, led by a rally in whole milk powder. The GDT price index climbed 3.3 per cent from the previous auction two weeks ago. The average price was US$ 3,309 a tonne, compared with US$ 3,271 a tonne two weeks ago. Some 23,93...

After three years of deadlock (2015−2017), India starts again the exports of dairy products, which between January and December 2018 increased by 136.5%, driven almost exclusively by Skimmed Milk Powder (SMP) and Butter. Lower SMP unit prices contribute to the sharp acceleration of exports, particularly in the month of December, when the Skimmed Milk Powder dropped to 1.66 $ / kg (-40.9%)...

In Australia, many Milk Producers continue to shrink herd size to cope with current drought and water needs. The data for the first half of the 2018−19 season recorded a production lower by 5.2% from previous year. In December 2018 there was a reduction of -6.9%. New Zealand output per cow increased. Milk production, in the period June 2018 — January 2019, recorded +4.9%. January 2019 milk production was +8.7% from January 2018. Fonterra...

In the second half of February, Ukrainian raw milk market was stable. Both purchase and spot prices have not changed much over the past two weeks. This indicates that there is a balance in supply and demand now. In February supply of raw materials, growth in demand for fresh milk products and continuing shipments of...

The list of sanctioned products can be expanded. The need for such a measure was stated in the Federal customs service (FCS). The dairy market participants did not support the expansion of the list of embargoes. We will remind, earlier in the FCS it was declared that violators import the forbidden products with use of goods of cover, indicating other country of origin and by ...

For cheese producers, the situation on the cheese market is becoming more complicated. In February, the main concern was the cease of the export schemes of cheese products by Belarus. This is serious, because in the past Ukrainian cheese makers were selling about 2−3 thousand tons of cheese products thorough this channel monthly. Now, producers of the chee...

The United States Department of Agriculture reported this afternoon that December milk production was 0.5% across the country, and up 0.9% in the top 23 dairy producing states. Cow numbers in December were down 49,000 head compared to a year ago, and down 3,000 head from November. For the year, U.S. milk production totaled 217.5 billion pounds, a 0.9% increase over 2017. That’s despite the fact that cow numbers are on the decline. For the year, U.S. cow numbers...

The government of Belarus is demanding to accelerate introduction of market mechanisms for the raw milk trade. The order for the implementation of a pilot project for the milk exchange trade was given by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin on February 13 at&nbs...