February 24, 2014 Sophie Langley Australian-based dairy businesses have coped differently with 'difficult' market conditions Food and beverage company Lion has announced its Dairy and Drinks business experienced “significant ...
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U.S. Milk Production Up Slightly for February on Small Herd Expansion; Higher U.S. Milk Production and Foreign Competition Will Temper Price Increases The most recent USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report raised the ...
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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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Wisconsin farmers didn’t have their best year ever in 2013, but they didn’t miss it by much. “They earned about $3.75 billion in total net farm income, $600 million more than in 2012 and just short of the record of $3.8 ...
The forecasts for total red meat and poultry production for both 2013 and 2014 are lowered from December. For 2013, beef production is raised, but pork, broiler, and turkey production are reduced. The forecast for 2014 is reduced as lower ...
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The average price for December milk in the U.S. is $21.80 per hundredweight, up 20 cents from November. Wisconsin's milk price for December is expected to be $21.90, up a dime from November, California is projected to average $20.50 up 49 ...
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Interest in Victorian dairy company Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) has attracted a new potential bidder, according to media reports. There is speculation that Chinese state-owned China Investment Corporation is interested in WCB and ...
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Lower corn prices in 2014 will likely keep a lid on Western hay prices, predicted Seth Hoyt, hay market analyst and keynote speaker at last week's Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Reno, NV. Supreme alfalfa hay prices, he added, should ...
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Cows performed very well in October and I had the expectation that November would be no different. However, as I did my daily check of the bulk tank weights I immediately saw that there was a problem during the first week of the month; ...
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The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
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Murray Goulburn (MG) Co-operative, an Australian diary giant, has recorded more than two-fold increase in net profit after tax to $34.9m for the financial year ended 30 June 2013, as compared to $14.5m in 2012. Sales rose by 1% against ...
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Dairy giant Arla has doubled profits for the first half of its financial year, amid news the two mergers it undertook in 2012 were paying off. Arla delivered capacity cost savings of £57M on an annual basis Arla announced its ...
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The 700 dairy producers in Tesco’s Sustainable Dairy Group (TSDG) are to receive an extra 1.9p/litre from April 1 2013. Tesco is lifting its supplier milk price to reflect higher feed costs and lower milk output The new price of ...
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UK-based dairy giant Dairy Crest and Dairy Crest Direct (DCD) are set to introduce a new formula-based milk contract to British dairy farmers from 1 April 2013. The new contract will provide a formula method of establishing milk price ...
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New Zealand-based multinational dairy co-operative Fonterra plans to invest more than NZ$100m ($82.44m) to set up a new ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk processing facility at its Waitoa site in Waikato. This move is a part of Fonterra's ...
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