Prior to 2014, the Chinese dairy market imported 20% of the total global trade in milk powder, i.e. more than 850,000 tonnes. It then cut spending drastically which led to a reduction in world milk prices as a direct consequence.
Reasons why this happened include the suffering of the Chinese economy
There has been a crackdown in China on the number of imported infant milk powder brands and the first 'victim' could be New Zealand, China's main supplier. This is all due to China's major revision of its food safety legislation last October which obliges milk powder manufacturers to register their
Does the world's largest biogas plant run on whey? The answer is yes. Developed from a renovated existing plant which has had a nitrogen and phosphorus recovery system added to it, this new plant is located in a dairy owned by Dairy Crest Group in Aspatria, a rural town of just 3,000
