Dairy Farmer articles from October 2002

Dairy Farmer archives from October 2002

COMMENT: Bucking the market.(dairy industry)(Brief Article)(Column)
October 31, 2002... Milk 17p farmgate and 51p retail, a threefold mark-up on its journey through the pasteurisers to supermarket shelves. Cheese #1700/tonne farmgate, #6000 retail - a fourfold mark-up. After all the summer-long gnashing of teeth in their...

Milk moving in with street cred - at last!(milk in fast food outlets )(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... Reports in this week's national press have fuelled interest in the latest attempt to imbue milk with that much needed street cred that could rocket its image from a basic commodity to a top-of-the-range drink. Plans are afoot to put milk...

Dairy base sale.(Dairy Crest)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... Dairy Crest has agreed to sell its former milk processing and distribution facility in London for #18.8m. The 10-acre site has not been used since January, and the buyers are a developer supported by two major insurance companies. ...

Pressure to scrap quota starting to lose impetus.(milk quotas)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... The future of milk quotas beyond 2008 now seems more certain after advocates of scrapping them won little support at a meeting of EU farm ministers. Instead, there seems to be majority support for extending the Agenda 2000 approach of...

Milk price to rise.(United Dairy Farmers, Belfast, Northrn Ireland )(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... United Dairy Farmers in Belfast has confirmed that it will increase its September milk price to 18 pence, following three successful auctions at which the price paid by processors has risen steadily to reach 20.4 pence for deliveries from...

Greatest growth trend is in milk from buffalo.(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... The International Dairy Federation has forecast that world milk production will increase by 1.4 per cent this year to almost 600m tonnes. This confirms a trend of rising production, averaging around 1.2 per cent each of the past 10 years....

Award chance.
October 31, 2002... If you have some definite ideas on how you are going to secure a future in the industry, our latest award competition is for you. You could earn yourself the prestigious `Dairy Farmer of the Future' title and pick up a holiday break as well....

Production rises in US.(dairy)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... The United States is on course to add to the problems of world dairy surpluses, having reported the biggest year-on-year increase in production for many years. In August production was up by almost 4 per cent over the same month in 2001. ...

GM milk isn't any different.(genetically modified cows)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... Research in the United States has confirmed that there is no difference between milk from conventional and GM cows. The trials were undertaken by universities in Wisconsin and Utah, in conjunction with the Infigen company, which is involved in...

Auction prices.(United Dairy Farmers)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... United Dairy Farmers, the co-operative which controls 70 per cent of the milk produced in Northern Ireland, reported an increase in prices at its October auction. This is the third month in a row prices have risen, mainly because of low milk...

The task to make milk cool.(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... An American study into the diets of teenage girls has underlined the scale of the task the dairy industry faces to make milk drinking `cool'. The trial, by a US Department of Agriculture nutritionist, involved over 700 girls, aged 12 to 19. At...

Dales cheese maker fearful of being trapped by 2p increase.(David Hartley of Wensleydale Dairy Products )(Interview)
October 31, 2002... David Hartley was instrumental in the management buy-out of Hawes Creamery in 1992 from Dairy Crest, and has since steered the company, now known as Wensleydale Dairy Products, into a successful cheese- making business culminating in the...

Showcase of young talent.(All Breeds All Britain Calf Show)
October 31, 2002... More than 1500 people attended the first All Breeds All Britain Calf Show - two days of friendly rivalry for the next generation of dairy farmers. Young people from all over the UK - representing 25 of the 27 Holstein Young Breeders'...

UK milk prices at bottom of the league.(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... A report on milk prices from a Dutch farming organisation has confirmed how grim the first half of 2002 has been, showing that once again the UK fared worst of all with prices at the bottom of the European league table and less than half those...

Demand for organic milk.(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... The organic bubble may have burst in terms of prices - but figures for European consumption in 2001 confirm that demand continues to grow. Consumers spent just under #800m on organic dairy products, which represents a year-on-year growth of 26...

Alarm bells sounding over quota handouts.(dairy quotas )
October 31, 2002... Farm commissioner Franz Fischler has set alarm bills ringing in the dairy industry over EU enlargement because of hints that he may be prepared to be more generous with quotas as part of the enlargement negotiations with member states that have...

French stick out for quota retention.(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... France has pledged that it will fight for the retention of quotas after 2008 - a decision that again puts it on the opposite side of the fence to the new German government which is committed to the earliest possible abolition of milk quotas....

Italy faces biggest superlevy bill - again.(over farm production quota)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2002... The Commission has published the final superlevy figures for 2001/2002 and, once again, Italy faces the biggest bill. It accounts for just over half the E276m due, and Germany, Austria and Ireland also face superlevy bills. Six member states,...

Fertility bonus of calving at lighter weight.
October 31, 2002... Rearing dairy heifers to heavier weights at calving is uneconomic and can reduce reproductive performance in the first and subsequent lactations, claim researchers in N Ireland. Angela Rhodes reports. Calving Holstein-Friesian heifers at a...