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Demand for butterfat has soared but more milk production means more skim milk than dairy processors can handle.
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Skim milk blues — Alberta producing more than can be used

Butterfat is where it’s at in the dairy business and investment in plants to process skim milk has lagged

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Alberta dairy farmers are watching their product — and their profits — circle the drain. “Some of our skim milk does not have a commercial value, and that compromises our prices,” said Tom Kootstra, Alberta Milk chair. “We do our best to find a use for this skim milk that has no place in the […] Read more
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Federal food labelling proposal has dairy farmers concerned

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CNS Canada — While trade deals have had Canadian dairy farmers concerned about losing market share domestically, a recent proposal to change food package labeling could potentially be more damaging to the industry. Health Canada launched consultations in February for its proposed new front-of-packaging labeling. The proposal, part of Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy, would […] Read more
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Butter stocks drive eastern dairy quota increase

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Increasing demand for dairy products — including a need to build butter stock — has meant a one per cent increasing in saleable dairy quota, and incentive days from November to March 2018, for eastern Canadian dairy farmers. The P5 dairy farm boards, representing Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, announced […] Read more
Sales of non-dairy milk alternatives, particularly almond milk, have skyrocketed in recent years.
Dairy Cattle, News

Got milk? Not so much these days

Sales of chocolate milk, yogurt, and cream up, but milk consumption way down

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While fluid milk sales are decreasing in Canada, consumption of cream, flavoured milk, cheese and yogurt is on the rise. “According to Statistics Canada, per capita consumption of fluid milk decreased 21.5 per cent from 1996 to 2015,” said provincial consumer market analyst Jeewani Fernando. “However, flavoured milk and cream consumption has increased significantly during […] Read more
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

China busts gang selling expired dairy products

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Shanghai/Wellington | Reuters — Chinese police have arrested 19 people for repackaging and selling expired dairy products originally from New Zealand giant Fonterra Co-Operative Group, a Shanghai regulator said on Monday, the latest food scare to hit the country. The bust, which initially took place in March, uncovered the gang who had cut 276 tons […] Read more
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

New Zealand dairy industry worries over Canada pricing plan

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Wellington/Winnipeg | Reuters — New Zealand is closely watching changes in how Canada prices dairy products, New Zealand’s trade ministry said on Friday, as industry groups in several countries complain of unfair Canadian competition. Canada’s dairy farmers and processors, which include Saputo and Parmalat Canada, struck a pricing agreement in July that industry groups in […] Read more
Livestock, Reuters

Farm gate prices fall in August on meat, dairy

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian producer prices unexpectedly fell in August as meat and dairy products saw the largest decrease in nearly nine years, while lower prices for energy and petroleum products also weighed, data from Statistics Canada showed on Friday. The 0.5 per cent decline in producer prices fell well short of analysts’ expectations […] Read more
As champions at the 2015 Canadian Cheese Rolling Festival on Aug. 15, Rebecca Sharar of Bainbridge, Wash. and Paul Nguyen of Whistler, B.C. each received an 11-lb. wheel of Canadian Boerenkaas cheese.
From the Hip, Opinion

Schoepp: Big picture ignored in supply management debate

Critics focus on milk powder, but the real issue is about creating 
valued-added products while protecting farm families


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Canadians produce over 700 kinds of cheese. It makes me smile to think of all the small processors and farmers who delight in cheese making. Cheese also contributes $69 million in exports every year. Sounds like a good-news story and as Canadians we tend to focus on what we know — and we know cheese […] Read more

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