EU dairy exports in April 2016 compared to April 2015 increased in volumes for butter (+52.5%), milk and cream (+51.7%), infant milk formula (+17.3%), cheese (+13.3%), whole milk powder (+12.3%) and whey powder (+5.1%). Exports decreased however for skimmed milk powder (-26.7%).
The main regions importing the above products were: Africa,
Triggered by the 30% cut in sheep milk prices compared to the previous year, on June 19 this year thousands of Sardinian shepherds along with their sheep and tractors mobilised themselves to defend their work, animals, cattle sheds and pastures which have been looked after by generations of people exposed
A glass of warm milk at night helps you sleep. Many argue that this is due to psychological reasons; people associate a hot drink with the coziness of bed. So is it just a popular belief? Maybe not. A few people have tried to find scientific evidence and have identified
Yoghurt is starting to boom in India with the market registering an annual growth rate of almost 30% between 2011 and 2015. This trend is expected to continue or even accelerate in the next five years with a total value that is estimated at around $1 billion in 2021.
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American imports of the following products increased in volume in April 2016: whey powder (+41.3% compared to the same month in 2015) and cheeses (+2.2%). On the other hand imports decreased for whole milk powder (-7.9%), butter (-9.2%), condensed milk (-14.8%), caseinates (-25.4%) and casein (-30.6%).
The trend up until April
Dairy prices are rising in the countries of Oceania albeit unevenly. In Australia the increase is also due to the weather which has been characterised by rainfall throughout the southern regions and dryness and drought in the north. This has brought relief to milk manufacturers in the south given that
New Zealand whole milk powder exports have shown excellent results having increased in volume in April this year by 24%. The unstoppable surge seen by baby milk continues, with April registering a remarkable increase of 109.3% in volume over the same month in 2015. In fact this year's first quarter
The number of cattle sheds in Italy has almost halved in ten years with a negative peak in 2015, a year which saw an all-time low of 33,000 farms compared to the 60,000 active ones in 2005. This is according to a study by Coldiretti entitled 'Italian Milk – a
Anyone speaking about the export situation being less than exceptional can't have read the data on Chinese imports, even if, it has to be said, the Asian giant slowed down in the fourth month of this year. Compared to April 2015 (CLAL data), in April this year the volume of
The Elixir of Long Life exists and consists of ten foods. New York Times journalist Dan Buettner has listed them in his book entitled The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People.
These are the 'magnificent ten': goat and sheep milk, Pane Carasau, barley, Pane Moddizzosu, fennel, broad
