According to the IFCN, the world milk price has increased by about 50 percent in the four months since May to an average of 33.7 US cent per kilogram. But dairy farmers all over the globe seem not to have taken notice of this development. Instead, at least in good old Europe, a great many […]
CETA, the little sister of TTIP, might finally be undersigned this autumn. While other sectors of the economy might benefit from the agreement between the Canadians and the Europeans, the advantages for the EU dairy sector will be limited. And in terms of milk exports, there isn’t much to gain for Canadian farmers anyway. The […]
DN: Vasyl, you are the owner of the INFAGRO analytical agency, right? VV.: Yes, I am. DN: How did the idea of establishing INFAGRO appear? VV.: The idea was spontaneous. Another thing is why we have chosen to specialize in dairy business. At first I thought about being engaged in analysis of all the branches […]
Let’s start with the fact that in our country the talks on the plight of the rural population arise with certain periodicity. All our elections campaigns readily use the slogans on poor peasants. Today they are really poor and political slogans make the impression that politicians are trying to help farmers. But they are just […]
There is a number of serious consequences that Great Britain’s exit from the European Union might cause. Now that we have had a few weeks to think it all over, it seems that it will be British dairy farmers who will be the biggest sufferers from the so-called Brexit. The EU will, of course, lose […]
Back in 2015 within the framework of the Analytical Platform of Agri-Industrial Complex we conducted the analytical assessment of the possible effects of various options of reforming the special VAT regime in agriculture and functioning of different models. The aim of the study was to summarize possible consequences of reforming of the special VAT regime […]
Speaking about milk suppliers – dairy processors relationship we have to consider two types of suppliers. There are, generally speaking, two types: large farms, which produce every day from 4-5 to 100 tons of milk, and rural households that own cows. Dairy enterprises are always interested in getting quality raw milk in the right amount, […]
According to the IFCN Monitoring the world milk price increased by 35% to a level of ca. 30 USD or 27 EUR/100 kg milk since June 2016. Now, after 2 years of lows in milk pay-out, world production is finally decreasing. Latest projections confirm that currently world milk demand is growing faster than the supply […]
INFAGRO: In your opinion, how a professional association of dairy processors should act to be effective in providing technical support to dairies and promote Ukrainian dairy products to foreign markets? The most successful association of manufacturers of various products is usually organized so as to guarantee transparent and competitive business environment to its members and […]
A new Zombie has entered the European Union. Those who believed that the milk quota has been dead for a year and a half now must face the fact that regulations that have cut so strongly into the economy of a sector for so many years have a tendency to stick. Somehow, someone must have […]
