Australia should not take its domestic food supply, and food security, for granted. That’s the view of a report published to coincide with the National Sustainable Food Summit in Melbourne. It says the industry needs to focus on local business models and take a more sophisticated view of food production.
In 2010, U.S. dairy sales grew 39% over 2009 to 1.5 million tons.
Dairy prices may rise, but until Japan’ situation becomes clearer, expect enhanced market volatility.
CWT accepted requests for export assistance from Darigold, Foremost Farms, and United Dairymen of Arizona to sell 235 metric tons of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Asia and the Middle East.
CWT accepted three requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell Cheddar cheese to customers in Asia.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 12 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, and Foremost Farms.
South Korea’s imports of U.S. beef surged this year, industry data showed Tuesday, as Asia’s fourth-largest economy struggled to contain foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). According to the data compiled by the U.S. MeatExport Federation, South Korea imported 20,340 tons of U.S. beef through Feb. 17 this year, compared with 11,209 tons in the first two months of last year.
CWT accepted four requests for export assistance from Foremost Farms and Land O’Lakes to sell 683,000 lb. of Cheddar cheese to customers in Central America and the Middle East.
Dairy producers will welcome continuing strong demand and firm prices for their products in 2011-12. Rising incomes in China, the Russian Federation, the Middle East and Asia mean a greater appetite for dairy foods.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement regarding today’s quarterly forecast for U.S. agriculturalexports, which are expected to reach a record $135.5 billion in fiscal year 2011:
A recovering global economy is good news for U.S. dairy exports, with 2010 U.S. sales growing 39% over 2009 to 1.5 million tons.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted two requests for export assistance from Darigold to sell 276 metric tons of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Asia.
India, Feb. 23 -- After years of political wrangling by European Union policy makers, rising food prices may be putting genetically modified, or GM, food on the menu.Officials are set to vote later Tuesday on whether to allow trace amounts of unauthorized GM material in animal-feed imports, a move campaigners say could herald a shift in the bloc’s attitude to biotechnology and would mark a victory for the GM lobby, which has been pushing for a relaxation in the EU’s zerotolerance rules on imports for years. The pro-GM lobby argues current restrictions are hurting the profitability of raising livestock, in some cases making it uneconomic. The lobby says this puts thousands of jobs at risk by contributing to a supply crisis that is likely to raise meat prices for consumers already struggling with food-price inflation. Anti-GM groups, meanwhile, say the EU measure, should it pass, is the thin end of the wedge toward easing other safety regulations.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 10 requests for export assistance to sell 1.475 million pounds of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and Asia.
Modest herd expansion, robust exports also expected.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 10 requests for export assistance to sell 1,637 metric tons (3.609 million pounds) to North Africa, the Middle East, Central America, and Asia.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 12 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Dairy Farmers of America, and United Dairymen of Arizona to sell 5.106 million pounds of Cheddar cheese to customers in North Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Europe, and Asia.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted seven requests for export assistance.
Year-to-date January through November 2010, Egypt imported $99 million worth of U.S. dairy products.
“The Holy Grail” of the agricultural calendar each month is the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report.
Rain that caused billions of dollars of destruction in Australia could propel wheat output in the fourth-largest exporter to a record next harvest and boost irrigated crops after floods swept parched land.
(RTTNews) - Global food prices rose to a record high in December 2010, according to a monthly report released by UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) on Wednesday.
Strong export growth experienced across the nation in 2010 was capped by record numbers at many larger ports in November and the momentum is likely to continue in 2011, reports The Journal of Commerce.
NMPF and USDEC hope the move will lead to the end of Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods, including many cheeses.
A new draft report backs use of whey protein concentrate in certain food aid products.
The issue of market access for US agricultural products in India seems to have taken an ugly turn with US Secretary of agriculture Thomas Vilsack sending a strongly-worded letter to his Indian counterpart Sharad Pawar, stating that the bilateral agricultural relationship will be “jeopardised” if India does not change its approach.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted seven requests for export assistance to sell a total of 1.702 million pounds of cheese to customers in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
But higher feed prices will narrow producer profits.
Strong export demand will mitigate downward dairy price pressure. But rising feed costs will still deteriorate margins in the first quarter of 2011.