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A short-term boost to the New Zealand dairy sector is possible as the US-China trade war escalates, but the industry is predicting long term pain. The administration of US President Donald Trump fired the first shot on Friday, putting tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, provoking Beijing to do likewise. Rad...

Arla says the UK dairy industry may have to ramp-up production and cut farm costs which could undermine standards Non-tariff barriers to trade and restricted access to labour after Brexit could leave Brits facing a «dairy dilemma», with choice of butter and cheese becoming restrict...

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a decree to extend the food embargo against countries that have imposed anti-Russian sanctions until December 31 2019. The decree «On extending certain special economic measures to ensure security of the Russian Federation» was published on the official portal of legal acts. In August 2014 Russia banned the import of products — in particular, cheese, meat and fruit — from the EU, the US and other countries. This was done in r...

According to the State Service of Statistics of Ukraine for the first half of the year, milk production has decreased by 1.8% YoY. The continuing decline in production of milk in rural households is not a surprise, but the slowdown in growth of milk production by agricultural enterprises is...

Raw milk production remains strong and steadily improving in South America, thanks mainly to the favorable weather conditions. Farm gate nominal prices remain relatively high. However, in most cases, dairy farmer operating costs are relatively high due to the negative drought effects to grain crops during Q1....

Australia has moved to cooler weather and frost throughout the country is limiting crop growth. Looking ahead, there are concerns about feed supplies not meeting demand. Milk production is at a low level in seasonal terms, but many milk producers are optimisticoverall as to the new milk production season, which started on July 1, 2018. Fonterra’s New Zealand milk collection for May 2018 was +6.6% compared with May 2018, thanks to a favorable autumn weather. Milk collection for the season ended 31 May 2018 down 1% on&...

Ukrainian milk market began to show signs of stabilization only in late June, which did not allow to significantly affect the overall picture, and the average monthly prices showed a decrease. This was reported by analyst of Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine (AMP) Yana Muzychenko. Thus, cost for kg of Extra Grade milk fell by 0.04 UAH to 8.8...

IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Tom Phelan today said that the improvement in all international dairy market indicators makes price increases imperative at this point. He stressed that they are also absolutely necessary as farmers' milk receipts are squeezed and production costs bumped up by drought. «An increase of 1c/l at...

Migrant labour from the Ukraine could plug the shortage of European Union workers needed on British farms post-Brexit, Defra Secretary Michael Gove has suggested. Speaking in front of MSPs at Holyrood, Mr Gove made the suggestion that the farming industry could «think about looking further afield» when recruiting labour. The farming industry employs a huge number of migrant workers from the European Union, and fears the loss of freedom of movement post-Brexit will bring a «catastrophic f...

The problem of cheese products sales is not being solved, warehouses are full, the terms of the stored products are expiring and traders have to sell the products for a song. Even to Kazakhstan some operators are selling cheese at 1,700 USD/ton. There is almost no hope for the renewal of export schemes through Belarus. In the domestic market s...