The Global Dairy Top 20
The Global Dairy Top 20, Rabobank’s annual survey of the world’s largest dairy companies, has been released. “While the names of the world’s 20 largest dairy companies will be familiar to industry...
View ArticleRabobank says NZ will ride out the storm
While drops in the GlobalDairyTrade auction prices in July and early August were “truly awful” for New Zealand dairy farmers, the recent collapse in dairy prices does not equate to long-term structural...
View ArticleProduction outstrips demand, says Rabobank
Milk production continues to expand faster than demand in recent months, according to agricultural analyst Rabobank’s Dairy Quarterly for the third quarter of 2015. Prices of key commodities have...
View ArticleEDA focuses on dairy growth
Last week, Edinburgh in the UK played host to the European Dairy Association (EDA) Annual Congress, which took an in-depth look at the current state of the dairy industry. Kevin Bellamy, senior analyst...
View ArticleLooking for the signposts
Edinburgh in the autumn is a lovely place to be. Against the backdrop of the Castle Rock, the European dairy industry met on George Street 15-16 October to discuss where it’s going and the new start...
View ArticleGlanbia launches €100m milk fund
Glanbia Co-operative Society, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Rabobank and Finance Ireland has announced the planned creation of a new €100 million ‘Glanbia MilkFlex Fund’. The fund will offer...
View ArticleUK dairy looks globally for export growth
The UK dairy industry has tremendous potential for growth on a global stage, and the ambition and determination to succeed, says Dairy UK chief executive Dr Judith Bryans (pictured second from left...
View ArticleNestlé tops Rabobank Global Dairy Top 20
Swiss giant Nestlé has topped agricultural analysts Rabobank’s top 20 list for dairy companies worldwide, according to the bank. The year 2015 was a “difficult year for most, with a strong US dollar...
View ArticleAfter the darkness
Rabobank’s Top 20 was released last week, and showed the effects of the downturn on the top processors globally in 2015. Now that milk prices are finally firming up, it is a snapshot of how the...
View ArticleDairy markets tighter despite high stocks, says Rabobank
Global milk production is tightening quickly and in the face of firm domestic demand surplus for exports has reduced sharply, according to a report by Rabobank. The global dairy quarterly report...
View ArticleTake a powder
Powder has been in the news this week, as Switzerland’s Hochdorf buys dairy powder Pharmalys, and Irish concern Ornua purchased CoreFX Ingredients in the US. This is giving both companies access to the...
View ArticleDairy trade faces headwinds, says Rabobank
The trade in dairy products has suffered a number of massive blows in the last three years and is set to continue face headwinds going forward, according to Kevin Bellamy, global dairy strategist at...
View ArticleSupply drop starts to bite, says Rabobank
Milk supply from dairy export regions has fallen sharply, by 2.6m tonnes in the second half of 2016, with milk volumes from Oceania and Europe severely challenged, according to agricultural bank...
View ArticleLook out, 2017 is behind you
Like a pantomime villain, 2016 is being defeated and off it goes into the sunset at the end of the week. Good things did occur, but the loss of many notables made this year a particularly painful one....
View ArticleRabobank adds dairy analyst
Agricultural bank Rabobank has announced the expansion of its RaboResearch food and agribusiness team with the addition of dairy analyst, Aga Dobrowolska Perry. Before joining, Perry worked for the...
View ArticleOptimism growing faster than supply, says Rabobank
Global milk production levels continue to recover following the sharp contraction in late 2016, according to the Rabobank Global Dairy Quarterly Q2 2017. Higher farmgate prices and more favourable...
View ArticleThe price of butter
Recovery of milk prices globally is the good news contained in Rabobank’s most recent quarterly report on the dairy industry, but there is a bit of a sting in the tail with overall production in Europe...
View ArticleThe dairy sector decides on alternative routes
The latest annual Rabobank survey highlights the global giants of the dairy industry, which have started to recover after two years of significant downturn. As prices start to move up again and milk...
View ArticleValue versus volume
The recovery of the global dairy market means that the global dairy companies can now become focused on value strategies instead of volume strategies, according to Rabobank’s recently released survey...
View ArticleRabobank predicts tighter supplies in 2018
Growth in milk supply—which turned positive in the second quarter if 2017— accelerated in the third quarter. The pressure of increasing milk supply across the key export regions began to take a toll on...
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