I would like to start with some figures that eloquently testify on the way Ukrainian milk processing has passed since 1990. If in 1990, 24 million tons of milk were produced, of which 18.5 million tons were recycled, in 2017 the total milk production in Ukraine amounted to 10.3 million tons. The plants processed only […]
In Ukraine Danone has been working for 20 years, of which 11 it has been engaged in local manufacturing of dairy products. More than 80% of milk suppliers have been cooperating with Danone for more than five years. In cooperation with their suppliers Danone constantly gives priority to high quality of the purchased milk. That […]
Although after a fairly long lull in the world dairy market some recovery can be observed, it is still too early to talk about fundamental changes. In Oceania, where production is still seasonally active now, prices have strengthened. But this happened not because of improvement of the market situation, but because of the expected worse […]
Providing dairy processors with sufficient volume of quality raw milk is an important issue to all dairy market operators, both producers and processors of milk. In recent years in dairy farming there has been a persistent trend of increasing cows’ productivity and growth in the number of livestock on farms demonstrating stable profitability of milk […]
First of all, I would like to inform that the services of the Milk Quality Laboratory which was recently opened in Uman with USAID support, will be available to any dairy farm regardless of whether it is an AVM member or not. Among the farms interested in our services we now have the non-AVM farms, […]
Recently, there have been many publications forecasting the innevitable rise in prices for dairy products in the near future. I would propose that the journalists writing on this issue would also take into account opinion of the dairy market analysts. My forecast is based on the real downward dynamics of the purchase price of raw […]
Since last September, officials and experts have been speaking a lot about the prohibition of industrial use of second-grade milk starting the New Year, January 1, 2018. And the reason was not the low-quality of the milk which is sometimes even dangerous, but because some time ago somebody introduced this requirement to the Association Agreement […]
Another year is about to end. 2017 was, all in all, a much better dairy year than 2016, for sure. Product prices increased as did milk prices and, hopefully, the margins of the dairy businesses have improved as well. Having been a visitor to the various trade shows addressing the dairy industry, IDM witnessed considerable […]
The Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam is a joint declaration signed by IDF and FAO on 19 October 2016 in Rotterdam. The Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam describes the crucial role dairy plays in the world in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The Declaration has already been signed by 20 IDF National […]
On the first of April 2015, EU abolished the Milk Quota that had been in place for 30 years, since 1984. The reason why Milk Quota were implemented for every member state of the EU was to manage the yearly recurring misbalances between Supply & Demand. The milk quota system has beensuccessful in terms of […]
