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Latest Australian Update
Lactalis to supply Woolies in WA
Lactalis Australia has won new contracts to process and package Woolworths’s milk in Western Australia for the next five years, commencing 1 January 2022. Lactalis takes over from Brownes Dairy who held the Woolworths contracts since July 2014. The Woolies contract is...
Code violation: ACCC takes Lactalis to court
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has initiated federal court proceedings against Lactalis for alleged breaches of the Dairy Code. ACCC alleges Lactalis breached several provisions of the Code and by doing so, weakened the bargaining power of...
DA project links productivity and profit
Dairy Australia (DA) has commissioned a research project aimed at improving the understanding of dairy farm productivity and its relationship to profitability. Agricultural economists from Marsden Jacobs Associates and other organisations will explore the change in...
Latest Global Update
NZ exports mixed in June
New Zealand exports of major dairy products were mixed in June, with positive trends for milk powders, cheese, butter and dry whey, but negative trends in other smaller categories including AMF, IMF, lactose, MPC, milk & cream and FFMP & Mixtures. WMP exports...
US milk production up 2.9% in June
Milk production expanded 2.9% in June according to the USDA. That followed 4.7% YOY growth in May. The milking herd finally declined, by just 1,000 head compared to the prior month to 9,508m. While down on the multi-decade high reached in May this was still 153,000...
NZ: Small lift in June production
New Zealand's milk production lifted 1.6% YOY in June on a milksolids basis and 1.8% YOY on a tonnage basis in what is the seasonally lowest month of production. June production remains 19.3% ahead of the 5-year average for New Zealand.
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