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The Association of milk producers (AMP) has submitted an application to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine on unjustified reduction of purchasing prices for raw milk and the possible collusion of processing plants. This is reported by the press service of the AMP. In March AMP called for dialogue between the representatives of the processing plants of dairy products, which since late January have been re...

In the State budget for 2017 the funding for the State service of Ukraine on food safety and consumer protection is provided in the amount of 1.7 billion UAH which is 70% more than last year. But most of these funds are spent on salaries, while the financing of anti-epizootic measures remains critical. This was stated by the Chairman of the State service of Ukraine on food safety and consumer protection Vladimir Lapa in an interview with UNIAN. "The lion's share of provided funds is aime...

IFA National Livestock Chairman Angus Woods said the cattle trade continues to strengthen with strong demand for cattle from the factories, live exporters and also at the marts. He said, at the factories the base price for steers is moving towards €4.10/kg and some factories are paying €4.20/kg for heifers for next week. He said in general this week €4.05/4.10...

China confirms the trend of imports of high-value-added products. On the other hand, imports of semi-finished products (such as milk and powders) decrease. Overall, in March 2017, there was an increase in unit prices on a trend basis (as compared to March 2016). Exports from Europe grows, specially in baby milk&rsquo...

While avoiding court action, Fonterra will be forced to pay Australian farmers $64m for reducing milk price last year. Even though Fonterra has escaped court action by the competition authorities over last year’s milk price cut, it will still be forced to repay farmers this money under its milk supply contract w...

Figures for the past two months show that milk production is falling back in Europe's second-largest dairy producer. France has reported its full figures for March, showing a 1.24% drop in milk collections compared with the same month last year. This means a 27m-litre drop in production. Since then, weekly survey...

Purchase milk prices pass from a course of decreasing trend. Analytical department of Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine announced this information. According to the last monitoring since May 5th, average price for extra grade milk lost 0.17 UAH/kg, an...

Purchase milk prices continue to collapse last week. Analytical department of Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine announced this information. According to the last monitoring from April 25, the average price for Extra grade milk lost 0.08 UAH/kg...

National Livestock Chairman Angus Woods has said the cattle trade is continuing to kick on with a base price of €4.05/4.10 for steers and €4.15/4.20 for heifers. He said some strong prices for bulls have also been offered with a flat R/U price of €4.15/kg. Cows have also improved with €3.65/3.70 for R grade cows and U grades at €3.75. Mr ...

EU-28 is the main cheese exporter in the world. In the first two months of 2017 the EU-28 cheese exports rose by 7.7% in volume and 10.2% in value (+55 million euro) compared to the same period of 2...