Sentences with phrase «dairy processor price»
The announcements follow a summer of protests driven by a series of August - scheduled dairy processor price cuts.
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Price Setting: Milk prices (for consumers as well as processors of butter, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream) are set by the dairy farmers themselves — based on cost of production plus what they determine is the appropriate profit.
We've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially high prices; b) food processors (and the jobs they could be creating in Canada) because of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because of supply management; d) the majority of Canadian farmers (over 90 per cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international growth opportunities.
The NFU (National Farmers Union) has strongly condemned the latest round of milk price cuts after three major dairy processors, who supply fresh liquid milk into the UK market place, issued notices for reductions.
Despite a flurry of milk price rise announcements from processors this week (see table below), many dairy farmers still face a gap between cost of production and farmgate milk price.
The UK Office of Fair Trading is imposing fines totalling # 49.51 million on four supermarkets and five dairy processors, following its dairy products retail pricing investigation.
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Dairy Crest was the first of several UK milk processors to delay its price reduction, issuing a statement on its intentions last Thursday.
If the milk price cuts imposed by Glanbia, Kerry and Lakeland this week are replicated by other processors, the average dairy farm will see $ 6,000 wiped off its yearly income.
UK — Most dairy processors have now moved farmgate prices from October 1st.
Global dairy prices may have recovered over the past year but that does not mean that dairy producers and processors in the UK are creaming off high profits.
If Murray Goulburn cuts the farm gate price, other milk processors are expected to follow, given the co-operative's position as a price setter in the market and recent comments from its competitors that this season's price did not reflect global dairy conditions.
Dairy farmers fear a profit downgrade from Murray Goulburn will lead to widespread cuts to the price they are paid for their milk, even if they don't supply Australia's biggest processor.
While most dairy processors have opened with what they say is a «strong» price at $ 5.60 a kilogram, dairy farmers are still hoping for step ups, or price increases throughout the season.
«We want to see increased use and uptake of innovative, new tools that help balance the price risk between farmer, processor and end user — and dairy futures could be one answer.»
Explaining more about the concept of dairy futures, he added: «A processor and manufacturer are afforded the capability to hedge their market risk, locking in a longer term price for a commodity, be it skimmed milk powder, butter or cheese.
Dairy companies have matched Australia's biggest milk processor, Murray Goulburn, which set the opening price for the current season in June.
Australia's biggest dairy processor, Murray Goulburn, has warned farmers of possible milk price cuts this season amid a souring environment for global dairy markets.
Most dairy processors have declared an opening price of $ 5.60 a kilogram of milk solids for the 2015 - 16 season and are hopeful it will rise to about $ 6 a kilogram by the end of the year.
He noted that dairy cooperatives in Ireland are responding more positively to events on global markets, adding that prices are also rising sharply in Great Britain — and said that some processors in Northern Ireland are buying milk cheaply from local farmers and selling it on a booming spot market for up to 35 pence (43 cents) a liter.
«The fact is that, for some time, the price paid to Australian dairy farmers for milk did not reflect the reality of the international market,» Ms Swales, who runs the country's second largest milk processor, told The Australian Financial Review this week.
We firmly maintain that we are innocent of all allegations against us and at no point sought to collude with other retailers or dairy processors on prices.
The case dates back to 2007 when the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleged that leading supermarkets and dairy processors including Tesco, Asda, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman colluded to fix the prices of certain milk, butter and cheese products in 2002 and dairy processors including Tesco, Asda, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman colluded to fix the prices of certain milk, butter and cheese products in 2002 and Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman colluded to fix the prices of certain milk, butter and cheese products in 2002 and 2003.
Two UK milk processors have announced milk price cuts for June citing strong supplies and weak dairy markets.
Dairy processor Fonterra will lift the prices it pays hundreds of farmers for their milk, after an outcry over the sudden drop in payments it announced earlier this month.
Dairy farmers are urging Ireland's leading milk processors to raise their September milk price to reflect EU global commodity trends.
A number of the countries foremost dairy processors face the charges, which total about $ 48m following the findings of a yearlong investigation over claims they shared price information, the Hellenic Competition Authority told the Associated Press yesterday.
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Latest figures released by the Dutch Dairy Board (LTO) show major Irish milk processors lagging substantially behind their European counterparts for April milk prices, according to the ICMSA.
Wiseman, one of the top three dairy processors, raised selling prices at the start of this year to offset the margin squeeze.
Australian dairy farmers are battling to survive an industry - wide crisis, after processors dramatically cut milk prices in response to a global oversupply of milk.
As a leading UK Dairy Processor prepares to increase payouts for their milk supplies from next month, the issue of sustainable pricing for supplies looks far from resolved.
The moves show how Britain's dairy processors are trying to address a general trend towards branded and added value dairy products across the European Union, spurred on by price cuts for commodities in the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy reform.
«Rising global dairy product prices and improved export earnings for processors will likely encourage local processors to increase farmgate milk prices, boding well for the industry.
Lakeland Dairies, became the first processor to announce its milk price for June supplies increasing its price by 1c / L to 33c / L including VAT.
The company, along with a number of other dairy processors like Nestlé, were last month accused of fixing prices between themselves.
The moves are the latest of several price cuts by processors this year and have increased concerns about the viability of the UK dairy sector going forward, amid a serious earnings problem throughout the supply chain.
Fonterra, which accounts for 20 per cent of total global dairy trade and is the second - largest milk processor in Australia, estimates the price gap between powders and other products has had a negative $ NZ800 million ($ 725.5 million) impact.
December 2007 also saw a number of UK - based retailers and dairy processors admitting involvement in alleged dairy price fixing for powdered milk, butter and cheese, resulting in combined fines of about # 116m ($ 161m) from the country's own regulator.
Both Arla and rival processor Dairy Crest lambasted supermarkets last month for cutting retail milk prices by around 14 per cent in March, eroding gains made through price rises in January.
The statement comes just weeks after the FFA, which is demanding an improved standard litre milk price, launched a fresh set of demonstrations against dairy processors.
Major supermarkets and dairy processors allegedly cheated consumers out of # 270m ($ 389m) by colluding to increase prices for dairy products, the OFT claimed last week.
DAIRY industry lobby groups are assessing if the move for processors to include incentives in opening milk price announcements is in contravention of the new voluntary code of conduct.
Lactalis, which owns France's well - known President and Société brands, said that price differences between regions and individual processors left the French dairy industry more exposed to recent EU subsidy cuts for commodity products.
«With this acquisition we are concerned that Danone will easily be able to beat out any competition by lowering prices beyond what farmstead dairies, and more moderate size milk processors and marketers, can withstand.»
Farmers For Action (FFA) demonstrated and created blockades at Arla Foods UK and Muller Wiseman Dairies processing facilities last week, in its latest attempt to bring an end to its long - running dispute with processors over farm gate milk prices.
In a provisional decision, the competition regulator alleged supermarkets Asda, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury, and Tesco, as well as dairy processors Arla, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and chdairy processors Arla, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and chDairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and cheese.
Dairy commodity costs have surged in the space of just one month to cap off huge rises in the prices being paid out by processors over the last year, according to recently published data by DIN Consultancy.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is pushing for a mandatory code of conduct for dairy processors after a year - long investigation into an industry crisis sparked by Murray Goulburn and Fonterra Australia retrospectively slashing prices paid to farmers.
On the matter of dairy farmers and processors, Samuel said that evidence has shown that most milk processors pay the same farm gate price to dairy farmers irrespective of whether it is intended to be sold as branded or house brand milk.