“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.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 17 requests for export assistance to sell Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to the Middle East and Asia.
WASDE report projects higher dairy exports next year.
Global bank foresees an intense battle for acres in 2011-12.
The new company will be part of the firms’ existing Dairy Partners of America (DPA) joint venture and is to be called DPA Chile.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted eight requests for export assistance to sell Cheddar cheese to customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
A total of 2,629 cheeses competed this year, coming from more than 29 countries. 29 U.S. companies received 79 medals.
Continued buying from China is key to how the 2011 markets unfold.
A panel of global dairy insiders says that the first half of 2011 could be troublesome for producers, but things will improve markedly by the second half—maybe.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Foremost Farms, Darigold, and Dairy Farmers of America to sell 1.8 million pounds of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese.
In its latest Global Dairy Outlook, the international bank says developments over the last 12 months have changed its view on the likely role of these two giants in the world marketplace.
The U.S. dairy market has the potential to compete in the global markets, according to a new podcast released by Rabobank.
CWT accepted 10 requests for export assistance 2.4 million pounds of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in the Middle East and Asia.
There have been few headlines lately but several hundred milk producers made a point of bringing attention to the ongoing crisis in the milk sector. They demonstrated, on 20 October in Strasbourg, at the urging of the European Milk Board (EMB), pressing MEPs to promote “fair conditions of competition”.
Over the next three years, Domino’s outlets in Australia and New Zealand will be serving 12 million pounds of California mozzarella cheese to their customers.
Cooperatives Working Together assists Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold in selling cheese to the Middle East, Asia, and Central America.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a interim rule called: Change in Disease Status of Japan Because of Foot-and-Mouth
Byline: Benzinga Staff American Dairy Changes Corporate Name to Feihe International, Inc. PR Newswire BEIJING and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 BEIJING and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire Asia-FirstCall/ -- American Dairy, Inc. (NYSE:ADY; the “Company”), one of the leading producers and distributors of premium infant formula, milk powder and soybean, rice and walnut products in China, today announced that, at theCompany’s annual meeting on October 12, 2010, shareholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to change itscorporate name to “Feihe International, Inc.” Promptly following theapproval, the Company filed Articles of Amendment with the state of Utah to implement the change in name. The change in name is effectiveimmediately but the Company’s ticker symbol will remain “ADY.”
The new Chinese dairy will house around 3,000 milking cows, imported from New Zealand.
U.S. milk production is expected to continue rising in 2011, but anticipated higher feed prices will likely curb producer income.
Next week, 170 cows will board a plane and leave the familiar pastures of North Dakota for a country halfway around the world."They get put in crates, about five head per crate,” said Bill Price, president of Global Beef Consultants. “Eighteen hours later, they’re in Astana.”