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On September 16, the inspectors of the European Commission completed their mission on the assessing of monitoring of residues and contaminants in live animals and animal products, including control of veterinary drugs in Ukraine. It is informed by the press-service of Ukraine State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. According to the results of the verification visit of the inspect...

Trend of milk prices growth can be seen over a month. However, most of the growth was marked for purchace prices of higher and first grade milk. As a result of this week extra grade price has risen sharply. It is reported by the analytical department of the Association of dairy producers. The average price for extra grade milk was 6.16 UAH/kg, which is 16 kopecks above th...

These data was presented by Ph. D., Director of the research Institute agricultural market studies (IKAR) Dmitry Rylko, in his speech at the conference «Suppliers and retail chains: the practice of effective interaction» in the exhibition World Food-2016. The expert presented data showing that in 2016, about 90% of imported cheese in Russia comes from the EEU countries. In 2015, this figure was 85%, according to IKAR, in 2...

II International Goat Breeding Conference was held in Ukraine on September 7−8. The event was organized by DeLaval Company. During the first day of the Conference Ukrainian and foreign experts shared their experience of goat breeding business: from choosing a location for the farm to the production of&n...

Recently the dairy farming efficiency improvement programme prepared by Souzmoloko was discussed in the RF Ministry of Agriculture. The document’s authors estimate the average volume of financing needed for programme implementation at 61.7 billion rubles. According to the experts, the sector depends on imports due to a number of problems. Among them - shortage or low quality of local breeding materials, outdated assessment system of cattle and genetic...

Price indices at the Global Dairy Trade auction on Tuesday rose by 7.7 per cent, indicating continuing recovery in dairy prices. The rise follows two previous auctions at which prices rose, on 2 and 16 August. Butter prices rose by 14.9 per cent and skimmed milk powder prices by 10 per cent. Whole milk po...

President Petro Poroshenko called for the introduction of the market of agricultural land with the right of sale and purchase of plots. He said that the inability to buy land constrains investment in the agricultural sector. He called for the introduction of the land market in his speech on the internal and external situation before the deputees of Ukrainian Parliament. «The absence of&nb...

Despite the relatively weak demand, in August Ukrainian cheese producers intensified their activity. While raw milk prices have not increased much, they are filling warehouses. But even large stocks do not prevent the cheese producers to raise prices.  For the first time since this year spring many market operators have increased the selling price for September by 3-...

Ukrainian dairies got the good news from the Government: the state price controls have been cancelled for a trial period of three months and the dairies can now set the prices for staple dairy foods themselves. Now Ukrainian dairies producing milk, kefir, sour cream — the so called «socially important foods” (staple foods) — do not have to submit to the s...

Purchase prices for milk keep growing trend. It is reported by the analytical department of the Association of dairy producers of Ukraine. According to the monitoring results from August 31, the average pric...