Russian dairy farmers often process their milk as a way to survive the prices offered by large processors. Vladimir Kalgin is one of those farmers. He, with his business partner, found the price that was being paid by the Pepsi-Co-owned large processor was below their cost of production. Kalgin was in Canada recently as part […] Read more
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Russian dairies compete on value added
Dairy farmers from Russia recently learned about Canada’s dairy system on a tour of Ontario farms
Ontario to host plant for U.S. lactose-free milk maker
A lactose-free milk brand distributed by Coca-Cola will be produced at a new dairy processing plant to be built at Peterborough, Ont. by early 2020. The facility’s first product will be Fairlife Ultrafiltered Milk, a lactose-free product billed as providing 50 per cent more protein and 50 per cent less sugar than traditional milk. Canada […] Read more
Eastern Canadian dairy quota cut
The amount of underproduction credits held by producers is causing concern and could result in more cuts
Dairy quota is being cut by 1.5 per cent in an effort to slow down growing milk production. The committee that manages quota in Canada’s five eastern provinces has cut quota effective May 1, 2018 by 1.5 per cent and reduced fall 2018 incentive days for conventional producers to zero in August and two days […] Read more
Eastern Manitoba ice cream maker closes shop
An eastern Manitoba dairy farmer who began producing a specialty ice cream with the farm’s own milk in 2013 has closed shop citing rising production costs. Lisa Dyck, owner of the Cornell Creme ice cream brand, began producing a line of hand-crafted ice cream in 2013, using milk from the family dairy farm northeast of […] Read more
OPINION: Why all the fuss about Canadian supply management?
Two reports shed a different light on the debate over Canada's dairy supports
Canada’s dairy system has figured prominently in the rhetorical dust storm surrounding ongoing NAFTA renegotiations. The Canadian government has so far remained steadfastly opposed to any significant change. Two documents that surfaced this week help explain why. The first, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Regulatory Economic Impact Analysis of the Final Decision to Establish a […] Read more
Brakes put on milk production
The committee that manages milk allocation in Canada’s eastern provinces has said there will no more new quota issued from now to the end of July – the end of the dairy year. Regular quota increases and general enthusiasm in the dairy industry over growing demand, has led to significant milk production increases in eastern […] Read more
Milk ad awareness beating top brands
Dairy Farmers of Canada has been pushed to better measure the effectiveness its farmer-funded milk promotion
Dairy Farmers of Canada continues to build its ability to measure the success of its marketing campaigns and return on investment after Dairy Farmers of Ontario pulled its promotion funding due to a lack of such information. Dairy Farmers of Canada’s (DFC) recent policy conference included a presentation by Don Mayo, global managing partner for […] Read more
Cool-temperature process extends milk shelf life
Rapid heating and cooling by 10 C
Purdue University researchers say they have developed a milk preservation system using a lower temperature than pasteurization, but providing a longer shelf life. The researchers found that increasing the temperature of milk by 10 C for less than a second and then cooling it rapidly eliminates more than 99 per cent of the bacteria left […] Read more
EU livestock farmers get compensation
Dairy farmers receive funds to offset price slump after scrapping of quotas
Brussels/Paris – Reuters — The European Union will grant an additional 500 million euros (C$721 million) to EU farmers struggling with a long-running crisis linked to low prices, notably in the dairy sector where it aims to reverse a boom in milk output after the scrapping of production quotas. European milk farmers have been struggling with […] Read more
Dairy support price trimmed starting March 1
Canada’s dairy producers can expect their overall revenue from sales of industrial milk to slip nearly two per cent starting in March. The Canadian Dairy Commission on Thursday announced it will snip the support price it sets for skim milk powder effective March 1 to $6.3109 per kilogram — down from the current $6.4754 — […] Read more
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