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Fresh dairy milk in glass and bottle
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

After milk quotas

French dairy farmers look for a way ahead after Brussels gives up the European supply management system

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Reading Time: < 1 minute French dairy farms are in turmoil. France is the second-largest dairy producer in the European Union, and for the past 30 years, governments there had used quota to tie milk production to assigned farm regions. But then Brussels pulled the plug on the EU quota system in 2015, and now decisions about where and how […] Read more
Michel Welter, the French producer whose 1,000-cow farm business model has shocked the whole country. The country’s average farm has fewer than 60.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

The most hated dairy farm in France

Milk After Quotas: Some dairy farms in southern France are facing an existential crisis

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The least we can say is that Michel Welter, director general of France’s biggest dairy farm, is a tough cookie. At 51, this former dairy producer works not only under daily pressure from the citizens of his village, Abbeville, located in northern France, but from the whole country for having built an “industrial farm” of […] Read more
At 27 years old, Baptiste, Jean-Marie Guinchard’s son, intends to take over the family farm and continue the Comté tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Setting their own quota

Milk After Quotas: Milk producers find more success with cheese

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Jean-Marie Guinchard looks across his ancestral farm located at la Sommette, a hamlet near the Swiss border. “We are cheese producers before being milk producers,” he tells me. “That’s saved us because we get a much higher return than conventional milk.” With his herd of 160 milking cows of the Montbéliarde breed, the 58 year […] Read more
Dairy farmer Lisa Dyck, shown here in 2013, launched Cornell Creme that year producing hand-crafted ice cream made from milk from the dairy farm she and her husband own between Beausejour and Anola. (Co-operator file photo by Lorraine Stevenson)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Eastern Manitoba ice cream maker closes shop

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Reading Time: 3 minutes An eastern Manitoba dairy farmer who began producing a specialty ice cream with the farm’s own milk in 2013 has closed shop citing rising production costs. Lisa Dyck, owner of the Cornell Creme ice cream brand, began producing a line of hand-crafted ice cream in 2013, using milk from the family dairy farm northeast of […] Read more
(Haagen-dazs.ca)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Nestle to spread out at London ice cream plant

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A multi-phase overhaul at Nestle Canada’s southwestern Ontario ice cream factory is moving further ahead with a plant expansion. The company’s London, Ont. ice cream plant, which has operated since 1966 and supplies brands such as Haagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Parlour and Skinny Cow for all of Canada, is in the midst of a four-phase, $51.5 million […] Read more
Nicolaas and Wilma Zeldenrijk operate one of the most technologically advanced farms in Canada, with automated feeding, milking and bedding.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Deciding about technology

Why do some farms leap ahead in technology while others wait? The reasons aren’t what you think

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Four robots at New Galma Dairy near Ingersoll, Ont., milk the cows while a second automated system finds its way around the barn feeding cows and heifers by itself and a third machine beds the cows without human intervention. Calves can decide when they want milk from a machine that identifies them and gives them […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Chicken, dairy farmers rip TPP concessions

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Updated, Jan. 25, 2018 — Canada’s supply-managed producer groups warn that the new Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal stands to chip away unnecessarily at their markets. Chicken Farmers of Canada on Wednesday said the CPTPP deal, on which Canada pledged Tuesday it will sign in March, still includes concessions on market access […] Read more
Women like Geetaben Patel are at the heart of India’s White Revolution 2.0.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

White Revolution 2.0

While Canada and the U.S. clash over NAFTA, Cargill, Nestlé and other global dairy giants are pumping their money into India

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Reading Time: 7 minutes India is the world’s largest dairy producer, thanks to the “White Revolution” that it launched shortly after the country’s independence in 1947, when it first gave itself the goal of replacing dairy imports and promoting self-sufficiency. Now, the country has embarked on a White Revolution 2.0 that will keep its borders closed to imports of […] Read more
(MGC.com.au)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Saputo to buy Australian dairy co-op Murray Goulburn

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Murray Goulburn Co-operative, Australia’s largest milk processor, on Friday said it agreed to a buyout from Canadian dairy company Saputo worth up to A$637.8 million (C$627.5 million). Murray Goulburn (MG) said Saputo would pay between A$1.10-$1.15 per share, compared to its A$2.10 issue price when it listed in 2015. A total buyout value […] Read more
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in Washington, D.C. on May 31, 2017. (Global Affairs Canada screengrab via YouTube)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

NAFTA negotiators trade barbs, agree on extension

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Washington | Reuters — Trade negotiators from the U.S. and Canada accused each other of sabotaging attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement on Tuesday, even as they and Mexico agreed to extend talks into 2018. A round of talks in Washington that lasted seven days failed to find the most basic common […] Read more

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