China has opened its markets to Irish beef exports, ending an 18-year ban that was imposed on Ireland following the outbreak of mad cow disease. The Asian country had banned beef imports from Ireland and other European Union countries and ...
Tags: beef exports, Beef
Ornua has announced expansion into the South Korean market by launching Kerrygold butter. The new product was unveiled by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD at a launch in the Hyundai Department Store ...
China is toughening its examination of milk powder imported from New Zealand, according to the quality control watchdog, after revelations emerged on Tuesday of a criminal threat to contaminate some products with an agricultural poison. ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Raw Milk
The Government of Ireland, along with industry partners, will invest €35m in the construction of a new dairy facility in the University of Limerick and the expansion of Teagasc’s Moorepark Technology in Fermoy, Cork. This is ...
Tags: Dairy Processing, Dairy
The free trade agreement (FTA) to be signed by Australia and China is expected to provide the former's dairy farmers tariff-free access to the latter's infant formula market over the next four years. Australian Government sources were ...
Tags: dairy farmers tariff-free, infant formula market, Agriculture
Australian mining heiress Gina Rinehart has announced plans to invest $500m in an infant milk powder joint venture Hope Dairies for export to China. The move comes in advance of an expected announcement of a free-trade agreement ...
Tags: Australian, infant milk, Queensland
China and Australia have signed a free trade agreement which intends to scrap tariffs on products such as dairy, beef, seafood, wine, fruit and vegetables. With this deal, the Australian farmers will get a tariff-free access to the ...
Tags: free trade agreement, Australia, China
Australian mining heiress Gina Rinehart is planning to invest $500m in a new infant milk powder venture Hope Dairies. According to media reports, Rinehart is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with Queensland Government and ...
Fonterra has officially opened its NZ$126 million UHT greenfield plant in Waitoa, New Zealand. The plant features state-of-the-art Tetra Pak processing and packaging equipment which will produce a range of products including UHT white milk ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, UHT Production
Global dairy product prices fell again at the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction, due to a seasonal lift in New Zealand supply and the recent Russian sanctions on European Union dairy exports. Prices are now 42.2% as against the ...
Tags: Dairy Product, dairy exports
American milk producers are enjoying a windfall thanks in part to surging exports to China, Bloomberg reported, citing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. While the average farm will see a 21% drop in net-cash income in 2014, dairy ...
Tags: Milk Demand, US Dairy Profits
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 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 ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
In excess of 100 senior representatives from the Irish dairy industry gathered in Dublin today for the launch of Bord Bia's national 'Sustainable Dairy Assurance Scheme' (SDAS). Delegates heard how the new dairy scheme is fundamental to ...
Dairy co-operative Irish dairy board(IDB)has secured a €20m contract from UK-based supermarket chain Tesco to supply packet butter to the retailer's outlets. Under the deal,the co-operative will supply its own brand butter to Tesco ...
Tags: packet butter, deal, dairy