It is worthwhile to note that organic milk was hardly affected by the recent milk market crisis. Despite a radical decrease of global milk prices, the prices for organic milk did not really suffer, both on farm and retail level. Maybe the organic sector has its own rules and mechanisms. Maybe it was just a […]
– Why the initiative of establishing dairy cooperatives for years has been confined just to talks without taking much support from dairy farmers? In my opinion, there are two main reasons: firstly, the imperfect Law “On Agricultural Cooperation”, which does not include the option of legal entities membership in manufacturing cooperative associations, while just for […]
How would you rate the current state of quality control of dairy products in Ukraine? When the ruling circles are presenting the state control as something deiberately criminal and forbid it by moratorium, it is quite difficult to evaluate the control effectiveness and the real capacities of its effectuation. Let us start from the beginning. There […]
What’s in store for 2017, price-wise? If I knew, I’d become a rich man soon. But one thing is certain: looking at prices, margins and profit, 2017 can only get better for most of the dairy companies and dairy farmers. With the exception of the private and multinational milk processors for whom the past two […]
During last time the global dairy market has not shown much signs of recovery. Moreover, for many goods prices rolled back. In fact, there are not so many reasons for the price decline. In Europe there are large interventional stocks of milk powder, but this factor can rather be considered only as psychological, because the […]
To talk about quality of raw milk, we must first understand what the regulatory requirements for the quality are. If we declare that we intend to keep the European standards, our regulatory requirements for quality of milk should be the same as in Europe. Unfortunately, now we do not have the proper regulations. Even the […]
The short answer is that main inflationary risks, in their traditional sense, lay down in foreseeing of UAH vs US dollar exchange dynamics. Generally, I would say that the state of the dairy market in Ukraine, including trends in raw milk price, can be characterized by many factors categorized as follows: 1. Projected factors, such […]
Unfortunately, the year that has passed cannot be considered as successful by dairy industry people. There were more negative factors than positive ones. The new 2017 year will also be very difficult. However, the dairy market operators are expecting a slight improvement. In brief, the results of the 2016 and forecasts for 2017 are as […]
Infagro: Speaking about dairy industry, are there in the Law of Ukraine “On milk and milk products” any special, industry-specific provisions concerning the safety and quality of dairy products, the ones which are not covered by the Law of Ukraine “On Basic Principles and Requirements for Safety and Quality of Food Products”? The Law of […]
During their meeting last Thursday, the EU has put the re sale of intervention Milk Powder back on the agenda. The proposal is to sell 22.150 mt by tender on the 13th December. On 24th November an official vote will be held to whether or not to execute the proposal (by the time of the […]
