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Sept. 23 2024
The Chinese dairy industry is facing dual headwinds of excessive domestic milk supply and weaker consumer demand
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Aug. 20 2024
While traveling to the airport early en route to a dairy industry meeting, I tuned into a Hoard’s Dairyman “Herd It Here” podcast episode covering feed conversion efficiency with Mary...
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April 8 2024
Seven regions around the world account for 80% of global dairy trade: the European Union, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay
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Nov. 14 2023
Having just wrapped up a phone call with a nutritionist regarding farm programs related to sustainability and carbon credits, the time is right to revisit the topic
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Aug. 3 2023
Not all that long ago, meat was not a major component in the Chinese diet. It wasn’t until the 1980s when meat production and consumption in the Asian country began to soar
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Jan. 30 2023
We are optimistic about Chinese dairy demand in 2023, but we are also concerned that its growing milk production may limit import growth during 2023
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Nov. 28 2022
Outside of cheese, China is the number one importer of essentially every major dairy product. Globally, the world’s most populated country purchases 27% of all traded dairy products on a milk solids
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Aug. 1 2022
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised down their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) forecasts for most countries this week. Overall, resource-rich regions fared better with GDP forecasts for some of
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Jan. 31 2022
Milk prices in New Zealand matter to dairy farmers in the United States because the island nation is the world’s largest dairy exporter
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Nov. 15 2021
Chad and Jan Winke made the life-changing decision 13 years ago to spend three years in New Zealand. The initial opportunity came up because Jan was offered a position with GEA supporting Kiwi dairy farmers
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Oct. 4 2021
China is expected to slow their milk powder import needs in the coming months. If other global importers cannot pick up the slack, downside price risk will be rippling through global dairy markets
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Jan. 28 2021
“We kind of laugh. It feels like it’s been Groundhog Day going all the way back to March 2020, since seemingly every few weeks we get some market-moving news."
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Jan. 4 2021
Many aspects of 2020 were complicated, and trade with China was certainly one of them. While trade wars and tariffs made headlines, one fact remained constant: China is a valuable trading partner for the...
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March 9 2020
The U.S. is the third largest exporter of dairy products after the European Union and New Zealand. There is always interest in how we compare our milk prices to another country
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Nov. 18 2019
China was a far different place when the Honneur Company entered the dairy scene in 1994. At that time, the world’s most populated nation had yet to join the World Trade Organization
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Oct. 3 2018
Hoard’s Dairyman and World Dairy Expo threw a great Trade Show Exhibitor Party on Tuesday night to kick-off the show
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July 23 2018
I would like to provide some perspective after reading your Hoard’s Dairyman Intel item “What will the dairy world look like in 2030?”
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June 11 2018
A nightmare animal health scenario has hit New Zealand’s dairy industry and government officials are taking painful steps to deal with it
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Jan. 15 2018
That’s the longest running national tourism slogan, according to research by the author of the Banyan column in the widely circulated The Economist magazine based out of Great Britain
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April 10 2017
China’s record level of dairy imports in 2014 has given dairy producers the impression that the Asian country will be a major buyer of dairy products on world markets into the future