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The Holland headquartered dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina will expand its plant in the Hungarian Matészalka with 25 percent. The investment will require an investment of 14 million euro.

In Holland, Royal FrieslandCampina has sold its Nutrifeed animal nutrition business to the Dutch private dairy company Denkavit. The two companies will enter into an agreement for the supply of dairy by-streams to the animal nutrition industry. With this acquisition Denkavit will further expand its global market position in young animal nutrition. The agreement for the supply of dairy by-streams improves Denkavit’s position in sourcing raw materials. The 70 employees that work for FrieslandCampina’s animal nutrition business will join Denkavit.

The Holland headquartered dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina has been sentences by a court in Thailand to compensate a former client for a total amount of Thai Baht 2.2 billion (EUR 57 million). The court issued a judgment in a business dispute between RFC Thailand and a business-to-business client. Based on its interpretation of the contract between RFC and this client, the court concluded that, between 2009 and 2019, RFC had overcharged its client. RFC disagrees with the judgment and is appealing against it. This contractual relationship ended at the end of 2019.

The United Kingdom based Zero Emission Livestock Project and the multinational company Cargill will cooperate to market a methane reducing mask for cattle, in particular dairy cows. ZELP claims that the nose masks can reduce the emission of methane by a cow with 53 percent. The market introduction of the masks is expected in 2022. ZELP states that the it has developed a technology to oxidise the methane present in cattle exhalations. The technology measures, captures and oxidises methane in real-time. The novel aspect of this technology lies in the process for oxidising the highly diluted methane exhaled by cattle. This process incorporates novel catalytic technology that has been successfully trialled on animals with efficiencies of up to 53%. This technology has also been successfully tested through numerous behavioural trials which evaluate the impact of the wearable on animal behaviour as well as production yields, rumination, rest and activity periods and feed intake, according to ZELP.

Ireland has been recognised by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) as having a negligible risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). This is the lowest risk status recognised by the OIE. Ireland had its latest outbreak of BSE in 2015.

Die Milchanlieferungen werden sich nach Einschätzung der Kommission nach dem kalten Frühjahr erholen und dürften 2021 insgesamt um 0,8 % auf gut 146 Mio t zulegen. Hinsichtlich der Milcherzeugnisse wird mit einem leichten Anstieg der Käse- und Butterproduktion in der EU um gut 86 000 t oder 0,8 % sowie 23 000 t beziehungsweise 1,0 % gerechnet. Die Wiedereröffnung der Restaurants werde den Käse- und Butterkonsum unterstützen, so die Kommission. In Verbindung mit einer nach wie vor beträchtlichen Anzahl von Menschen, die von zu Hause aus arbeiteten und daher „gutbürgerlich“ kochten, was den Einzelhandelsumsatz weiterhin unterstützen sollte, könnte der EU-Verbrauch von Käse und Butter im Jahr 2021 um etwa 1 % steigen, prognostizieren die Brüsseler Beamten. Die EU-Produktion von Frischmilchprodukten dürfte sich ihnen zufolge stabil entwickeln. Dieses Segment profitiert der Kommission zufolge aktuell von einer guten chinesischen Nachfrage. (AgE)

In Germany in 2020 the consumption of milk was 50 kilogram per head which was almost the same as in 2019. Cheese consumption was 25.4 kilogram.

In Germany in 2020 the number of dairy farms decreased 4.3 percent to 57300 farms. Together they housed 3.92 million dairy cows. German farms supplied in 2020 a volume of 31.8 million tons milk to dairies. The volume organic milk increased four percent.

In Germany in 2020 the sales of dairy product with a VLOG-label increased 14 percent to 8.8 billion (10*9) euro and had double the value of the sales in 2017. Important conditions for meeting the VLOG standard are that participating dairy farmers give their cows feed that is free from gene technology. Additionally participants apply full outside grazing at their farms. Also, the dairy processor has to guarantee that VLOG milk is processed in a separate milk stream. Dairy farms that produce according to the VLOG standard receive an extra reward on their milk.

In Holland a study of Wageningen University & Research shows that the ammonia emission per hectare on organic dairy farms is half of the emission on regular farms. The total nitrogen emission and losses on organic dairy farms are 70 percent less than on regular dairy farms. The differences are among others causes by more pasturing, less cows per hectare, no use of fertilizer, lower average milk production and lower nitrogen level in feed rations on organic farms.

In Holland 72 percent of the dairy farms is active lowering the milk production of cows before drying them up. Most (32%) this is done by giving them an other ration, 20 percent is milking them less often, 42 percent does both and six percent does else. Average milk production at drying up is 13 kilogram per day.

The Holland headquartered dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina has launched its AfricaNutrition programme in Ivory Coast. This nutrition study is intended to provide insights into the dietary patterns of vulnerable women and children. A total of 423 women (aged 18 to 49) and 423 children (aged 6 to 12) participate in the study in Ivory Coast. The AfricaNutrition programme resembles FrieslandCampina’s nutrition study called SEANUTS (South East Asia Nutritional Survey), which is currently being conducted in Southeast Asia. This nutritional research stems from RFC its goal of providing better nutrition for the world population by making healthy dairy products more accessible.

Dutch dairy farms made in 2020 a negative margin on milk production, provisional figures of the accountancy agency Flynth shows. Average milk yield was 36.55 eurocent per kilogram, but critical milk price was 37.49 eurocent per kilogram.

In Holland in 2020 the animal health service Royal GD tested 2728 milk samples on resistance against antibiotics. The result was that four percent was multi-resistant against three different antibiotics.

In the United Kingdom the dairy cooperative First Milk, the global private food company Nestlé and Agricarbon, a company that is soil sampling and mapping, have launched of a pioneering soil carbon capture project – the first of its kind in the world. The project, which establishes a comprehensive and scientifically robust soil carbon baseline for First Milk farms, will use state-of-the-art machinery to carry out intensive soil carbon analysis at a fraction of the usual cost. The approach allows soil carbon sequestration to be quantified over time to support the net zero ambitions of First Milk farmers and customers. The initial phases of the project are being conducted in partnership with Nestlé, which is supporting this as part of its climate journey roadmap, building robust scientific data, with partners, to effectively drive meaningful progress in carbon reduction through its supply chain. The project will see high intensity, field-by-field soil carbon stock quantified across 40 farms, with the intention to extend this to 100 First Milk farms by the end of 2021. First Milk has started a program to become carbon net zero by 2040, among others by regenerative action plans for all First Milk members, to sequestering 100 000 tonnes of carbon in soils per annum by 2025.

Ireland will get its first semen sorting laboratory for cattle. The global company Sexing Technologies will open this. The two Irish artificial insemination companies Dovea Genetics and Eurogene AI Services will produce sex-sorted semen at the new facility.

The Denmark headquartered dairy cooperative Arla and its farmer owners are closing the loop on the renewable electricity produced on farm in a move that reduces the carbon footprint of Arla’s milk, secures farmers a better price for their power and gives the dairy cooperative direct access to more green electricity certificates, according to Arla. As Arla is looking to increase its share of renewable energy in its operations, the company and the farmer owners have collaborated on an idea for how to keep the farmers green electricity in the dairy value chain and provide a better profit for the farmer. In Arla’s operations, emissions have been lowered 24 per cent since 2015 and the share of renewable energy used in operations is currently 35 per cent. A continuous increase is part of the ambition to reduce total emission by 30 per cent from 2015 to 2030 and to be a carbon net zero dairy cooperative in 2050. Technically, the loop is created via the Guarantees of Origin (GO) that are issued for the renewable electricity produced on the farm. Until now, the farmers’ only option has been to sell their GO as a commodity for resale, either through a utilities company or a trader. Now though, by selling their Guarantees of Origin directly to Arla, the other parties are left out of the transaction and the farmers are rewarded with the full market value that Arla would pay for GOs on the open market. A Gurarantee of Origin (GO) is a EU standardized instrument to guarantee that one MWH of electricity has been produced from renewable energy sources and that the carbon reductions is only counted once – by the owner of the GO. The GO is issued to the producer of the energy and is a tradable commodity, which is often sold together with the green energy, e.g. to a utilities company that typically resell them to companies who want to reduce their carbon footprint. Some farmers sell the GO separately to traders, who will sell it with a profit on the open market. Arla already buys GO’s in the open market for approximately one third of its total electricity use in its operations. If Arla buys the GO’s directly from the farmer owners at market value, the full profit stays with the electricity-producing farmer and Arla has the right to claim the ownership of the CO2 reductions in its dairy chain.

The Finland biggest headquartered dairy cooperative Valio is spinning off the business operations of the plant-based Valio Oddlygood® products to Oddlygood Global Ltd. The company aims to accelerate growth of Oddlygood by creating a network of partners. Oddlygood Global is seeking one or more partners who can bring distribution and sales networks as well as resources to accelerate international growth in various markets. The partners could be, e.g., distributors in markets where Valio doesn’t have its own network. This would give Oddlygood products a faster track to various target markets. The spin-off also enables the core team to have the best possible focus on business development. People are increasingly interested in plant-based products, and changing global consumer trends are behind this.

The Finland biggest headquartered dairy cooperative Valio is acquiring Heinon Tukku Oy which is one of Finland’s biggest wholesalers serving professional kitchens. Heinon Tukku’s typical turnover in recent years has been around 240 million euros. The coronavirus pandemic naturally reduced its turnover, which was about 170 million euros in 2020. About 340 employees will transfer to Valio through the acquisition. Valio’s aim is to be a more comprehensive partner to restaurant and coffee shop professionals and to become a single-source supplier of everything a professional kitchen needs: in addition to an extensive selection of raw materials, support in product development and in creating meal and snack concepts. The eating out and takeaway trend is expected to return to growth after the coronavirus pandemic eases.

In Finland the value of exports of milk and dairy products decreased by 3 percent from February 2020 till February 2021, while the volume of exports increased by 7 percent. The value of imports of milk and dairy products fell by 9 percent, while the volume of imports fell by 3 percent.