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... with the new zealand-based dairy multinational fonterra announcing a drop in profits from its organic dairy operations in new zealand this week, australian food news has been investigating the current state of australia’s organic dairy industry ... andrew monk, convenor of the biological farmers of australia (bfa) standards advisory group says australia’s organic dairy industry is a “small but growing industry” ... “it faces a challenge in meeting the consistently growing demand for the product while remaining within a sustainable price range - both for producers and consumers ... australia’s “growing and under-supplied” organic dairy market “supply of australian organic dairy has continued to struggle to keep up with demand and in fact has even been importing new zealand organic dairy to supplement local supply in australia ... in the short term, this remains good news for australian organic dairy producers to continue to supply into a growing and under supplied market,” dr monk said ... he continued, “however, organic dairy involves an intensive production system requiring organic feed inputs and other higher costs of slower growth or production (due to the organic standard requirements of natural production systems) ... ” retail opportunities for australia’s organic dairy producers according to dr ... “the irony of fonterra’s cutback of organic dairy in new zealand is that countries like australia are starting to see an increase in mainstream [supermarket] demand for organic products ... monk acknowledged that the large dairy groups are under greater pressure to maintain high shorter term returns for their owners ... combined with projected high world prices for non-organic dairy products in the coming period, companies like fonterra may be considering their organic dairy operations are simply not a business priority ... “even if organic dairy rises to 5% of the total australian or new zealand dairy product market in the coming decade, the likes of fonterra may still view this as too “niche” for such a large company,” dr

... a top local dairy industry official has called china's dairy standards the loosest in the world, triggering a fresh controversy on the issue ... the issue gained new momentum when wang dingmian, chairman of the guangzhou dairy association, said at an industry meeting that the country's standards on fresh milk are the loosest in the world and a national "shame ... " dingmian's comments, which have been quoted by official chinese news agencies, pointed to china's new dairy standards , which took effect on june 1 this year ... in comparison, dairy standards in western nations call for a bacterial count of roughly 100,000 per millilitre of raw milk, and a protein content of roughly 3 grams per 100 grams of raw milk ... dingmian added that the standards were lowered because of increased pressure from dairy producers, who were looking to reap larger profits by cutting costs via these reduced standards ... he further alleged that the bacteria counts in freshly produced raw milk were low and it is the dairy producers' own sanitation standards that were unable to meet high dairy standards ... further, dingmian said that lower protein counts resulted in lower prices for raw milk being paid by producers to farmers as they could now claim that individual farmers could feed their cattle with less nutritious and cheaper forage ... while officials at the guangzhou dairy association remain tight lipped, an official from another province level dairy association said that dingmian was not wrong, but his reasons may be ... “if higher standards were adopted, i estimate that at least 60 per cent of all dairy cows would be rendered unusable to supply milk,” he added

... the food safety body said loopholes in the quality control system of dairy products had been responsible for allowing the contaminated powder to re-emerge ... the scandal erupted in 2008 when a number of dairy producers in china were found to be adding melamine to milk powder to make it appear the protein content of the product was higher than it actually was

... fonterra said today the announcement of full free trade agreement (fta) negotiations with russia and its customs union partners, belarus and kazakhstan, had the potential to make the region an even more important partner for the new zealand dairy industry ... russia is one of the world’s largest market for imports of butter and cheese and a significant dairy export market for new zealand ... new zealand dairy exports to russia, mostly butter and cheese, were last year worth around $120 million ... “new zealand dairy producers have a long history of supplying russia with high quality food products ... building on these foundations, russia has the potential to become an even more important market for the new zealand dairy industry and for fonterra,” said kelvin wickham, fonterra group director, supplier & external relations

... a new test standard to determine the melamine and cyanuric acid content of liquid milk, powdered milk products and infant formulae has been developed by the international dairy federation (idf) and international organization for standardization (iso) ... it will ensure the integrity and safety of tested milk and derivative products, and producers, manufacturers and regulatory authorities can use it to prevent further incidents ... co-project leaders, new zealander steve holroyd and thierry delatour said the technical standard will be useful for dairy producers and suppliers, milk product and infant formulae manufacturers, regulatory and testing authorities, equipment suppliers, and the food industry in general

... milkiland nv owns one of ukraine's largest dairy producers milkiland-ukraine which controls 16 dairy plants across the country and a large milk plant in moscow

... through our high level group established specifically to examine the market crisis, we have studied the situation carefully, and i am optimistic that the proposals that i will present in december will enable dairy producers to respond better to evolutions in the market and provide a more stable environment as we move towards the end of the quota regime in 2015 ... these quantities are broken down among producers (individual quotas) in each member state ... where there is an overrun in the national quota, a surplus levy – or "superlevy" - is payable in the member state concerned by the producers who have contributed to the overrun, at a rate of € 27 ... this levy has to be paid by producers of cow's milk on all quantities of milk or milk equivalent in excess of the quota marketed during a 12-month period, which runs from 1 april to 31 march

... 29 september 2010, rome - making smallholder dairy production more competitive could be a powerful tool for reducing poverty, raising nutrition levels and improving the livelihoods of rural people in many developing countries, fao said in a new report on smallholder milk production published today ... production of this increased volume of milk by small-scale dairy farmers would create approximately three million jobs per year in primary production alone," said samuel jutzi, director of fao's animal production and health division ... "this presents a unique opportunity for establishing sustainable dairy chains that can meet the demands of local consumers and the world market ... judicious development of the dairy sector could thus make a substantial contribution to achieving the millennium development goal of eradicating hunger and poverty," jutzi said ... dairy mattersit is estimated that around 150 million small-scale dairy farming households, around 750 million people, are engaged in milk production, the majority of them in developing countries, according to the study the status and prospects for smallholder milk production - a global perspective, jointly published with the international farm comparison network (ifcn) ... globally, the mean dairy herd size is around two cows providing an average milk yield of 11 litres per farm per day ... competitive and resilientacross the countries analyzed in the fao/ifcn study, small-scale milk producers have very competitive production costs and thus, if organized, have the potential to compete with large-scale, capital-intensive, ‘high-tech' dairy farming systems in developed and developing countries ... growing consumer demand for dairy products in developing countries, driven by population growth and rising incomes, offers important market opportunities for smallholders, the fao/ifcn report said ... the latter could also benefit from expected higher world market prices for dairy products ... better farm management practices, expanding dairy herd sizes and increasing milk yields could easily improve smallholder labour productivity, which currently is rather low

... "milk provides the building blocks for what you need to build new muscles," said jones, who has no ties to the dairy industry ... dairy producers have been eager to break into the multibillion-dollar market, often sponsoring research into milk's athletic benefits that some call biased ... "it's the form of the carbohydrate and the nutrients in milk that is most important," said emma cockburn, a lecturer in sports coaching at northumbria university in northeast england who led the study, which was partially paid for by the dairy industry ... phillips has advised the canadian olympic association about milk and the dairy industry paid for part of his research ... at the vancouver olympics, dairy farmers trucked in about 85,000 extra quarts (80,000 liters) of chocolate milk

... dennis jönssonceotetra pak the latest edition of the tetra pak dairy index, released today, shows that factors such as the increase of ageing as well as growing urban and middle class populations, especially in these emerging markets, will impact consumer needs and behaviour in the future ... changing demographics will have an impact on the types of dairy products people consume and how they consume them, providing new growth opportunities for the dairy industry, according to the tetra pak dairy index ... jönsson said that dairy producers in various countries are offering these consumers, who are in the search of ‘wellness’, products such as milk fortified with calcium, vitamins and minerals that can help reduce cholesterol and protect against osteoporosis ... jönsson added that china, which has significantly increased its milk and other dairy product consumption, will have for the first time in its history more people in cities than in rural areas by 2013 ... jönsson went on to say that these consumers with increased purchasing power want and can afford other liquid dairy products, such as flavoured milk, to satisfy new food and drink preferences ... in addition, dairy producers are introducing more and more value-added products such as enriched milk and drinking yoghurt for this growth category ... dairy producers who can meet the changing needs of this demographic segment will realise significant growth opportunities ... ” “it’s a dynamic time in the dairy industry — with milk, as an affordable and nutritious staple, becoming part of the daily diet of more and more people around the world,” added the ceo