The Global Infant Formula Market Report 2016 has been released. It comprises 54 pages, 5 tables and 44 charts and provides complete data on the artificial milk market and its various segments, as well as the main trends and issues to be addressed. It also focuses on the activities of
Villanovafranca in the province of Cagliari has recently been home to the world premiere trial of a digital milk meter. The function of a digital milk meter is to measure milked sheep milk and analyse its fat content. This experiment was started on the initiative of the Regional Farmers’ Association of Sardinia (ARA
From a chemical point of view, milk is one of the most complex fluids in the world. It is a heterogeneous mixture made up of different components in unstable equilibrium. This characteristic is also reflected in the differences between various types of milk, like, for example, sheep milk and cow’s
According to Yuanrong Chen, a Chinese dairy specialist who has invested in sheep dairying in New Zealand and has been in the dairy industry for 40 years, milking sheep might be key for New Zealand dairies. Sheep milking has grown in New Zealand from 3,000 ewes last year to a
The consumption of cow’s milk in the area of the Mediterranean is a fairly recent habit: up until 70 years ago cows were only used for labour and their milk was consumed exclusively by calves. It has been historically proven that milk consumed in this area was obtained from goats
Bars dedicated exclusively to milk? In China there are 50 of them and they are set to increase dramatically. The New Zealand Milk Bar brand is unknown in its country of origin but opened its fiftieth store in Shanghai, China, in May. The ultimate goal is to open at least
Sheep milk is a precious food which is particularly recommended in certain periods of life when nutritional requirements change. The mention of milk immediately brings to mind calcium. Calcium is essential for creating bone tissue, preventing bone loss, regulating the function of the nervous system and it is also involved
Sheep milk can for all intents and purposes be considered a functional food or one belonging to that category which, if consumed as part of a balanced diet, has a potentially positive effect on health beyond basic nutrition due to the fact that it lowers the risk of certain diseases.
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Feeding costs are one of the biggest problems for dairy farmers. It was the summer of 2012 when breeders of the project ‘S/stema Stalla’, which was created to measure the competitiveness of Italian dairy farms, pointed out an increase in the cost of soya and in general in the protein
Brexit, i.e. the departure of the United Kingdom from the EU, raises questions about the future for both the UK and Europe. And the issue is not purely financial as immediate problems may regard the markets, particularly the agricultural and food sectors and therefore also the dairy sector. The UK, in
