Tetra Pak is rating its past year a success, with higher recycling rates, lower CO2 emissions and commercialisation of the world’s first 100% bio-based carton achieved. Tetra Pak has continued to make progress towards its 2020 ...
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A number of Québec's institutional investors and bankers have announced a $470m investment, in the form of preferred units, in Agropur Cooperative, Canada's largest dairy cooperative. The transaction supports the cooperative's ...
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French dairy major Danone has objected to Russian agriculture minister's charges of adulteration of its dairy products. Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said that Danone and Wimm-Bill Dann, which is controlled by PepsiCo, ...
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The European Commission will offer €28m in financing for milk producers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in response to the ban imposed by Russia on certain EU agricultural product imports. Based on individual milk production levels ...
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The European Commission has approved a €28m financing package for milk producers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The move comes in response to the Russian ban on the import of certain EU agricultural products. Of the total ...
Australian private equity firm Archer Capital is looking for a joint venture (JV) partner in Asia for its Brownes Dairy unit. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the move comes in response to the dominance of retailers, which have ...
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Two months ago, Freedom Foods' Pactum Dairy Group commissioned a new $45m UHT (aseptic) dairy beverage facility in the northern Victorian city of Shepparton for manufacture of high value added dairy beverages for key customers in China and ...
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The A2 Corporation has changed its name to The A2 Milk Company The Board of dairy manufacturer A2 Corporation has resolved to change the name of the company to The A2 Milk Company Limited, effective from 8 April 2014. The Company will ...
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Russian authorities have imposed a ban on imports of dairy products into the country from six Ukrainian factories. Trade relations between the two countries were deteriorating since Russia annexed Crimea last month. The Russian consumer ...
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Even the best medicine has side effects. For years, dairy producers have been selectively breeding their herds to encourage milk production. New insights have confirmed, though, that such efforts to satisfy society's demand for milk, cheese ...
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Young people interested in dairy will learn about showmanship, nutrition, how to network and related topics at Purdue Extension's 10th annual Indiana Dairy Youth Conference on April 12. The conference will start at 10 a.m. and go to 4 ...
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The High Plains Dairy Conference held recently in Lubbock served as a one-stop update for many things important to the dairy industry, including the value of maintaining good employees, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service ...
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Over the last 20 years, U.S. dairy producers have faced rapidly changing milk prices and input prices, primarily for feeds. The monthly average U.S. all-milk price has been highly volatile since 1990, particularly in more recent years. ...
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As limited supplies keep strong pressure on top-end alfalfa-hay prices, dairy producers in the Upper Midwest are looking closer at medium- to average-quality alfalfa. That’s according to grower-dealer Leslie Zimmerman, of ...
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Dairy farmers have a new opportunity to protect their farm income with dairy margin insurance. The dairy safety net in the new farm bill takes a new approach. Margin insurance, and the nuts-and-bolts decisions to be made, will be ...
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