They've been talking
up dairy prices and everything... there will be a lot of pressure on Gary Helou.»
Not exact matches
After all, there is a lot at stake financially (see «
Dairy prices go
up again «-RRB-.
Dairy products was the only category that was revised, with
prices now estimated to climb 5 percent to 6 percent,
up from 4.5 percent to 5 percent.
Tops» finances, which were never strong after Curci led the management buyout in late 2013, deteriorated further over the past three years as competition heated
up and some food
prices, especially on meat and
dairy products, started to fall.
Where farm gate
prices traditionally are set conservatively low, and rise as the season progresses with step
ups paid to farmers as the budget is refined based on actual sales,
dairy farmers that supply these companies are now facing the prospect of retrospectively paying back 10 months of «overpaid» milk.
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.
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.
Where the
price for
dairy products on the global market has gone
up by 80 per cent in the past few years, farm returns have risen only 15 per cent.
Up to 4,000
dairy farmers recently held a three - day strike, withholding milk from
dairies, to protest at low farmgate
prices.
O'Leary believes that the prospect for
dairy prices remains positive right
up to the end of June this year.
«We believe supermarkets have been colluding to put
up the
price of
dairy products.
Farmers have been asking why Australian
dairy prices were not keeping
up to those in the European Union or New Zealand.
Anyone who has recently picked
up a block of butter in the
dairy aisle at a supermarket in Germany will have likely noticed a dramatic increase in its
price.
The
Dairy Group's Market
Price Equivalent, jumped to 28.47 p / litre in February increasing by 0.85 p / litre from January and
up 2.44 p / litre from last year.
Soaring
dairy commodity
prices and a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the
dairy industry are boosting sentiment and pushing
up farmgate milk
prices.
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has agreed to pay $ 46m to settle a lawsuit that alleged it manipulated trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in an effort to drive up dairy product prices in th
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has agreed to pay $ 46m to settle a lawsuit that alleged it manipulated trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in an effort to drive
up dairy product prices in th
dairy product
prices in the US.
In its 3 March 2014 announcement, Tesco attempted to assure consumers that its new lower milk
price would have no impact on the 650 milk farmers that make
up its Tesco Sustainable
Dairy Group (TSDG).
Meanwhile, Mars Ice Cream is concerned about commodity
prices and plans to continue watching international demand for
dairy inputs that carry potential to drive
up costs.
Dairy product
prices are
up at Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade auction, rising for the third time in a row and offering a boost to sentiment.
«It is very pleasing to see however the latest Fonterra milk
price at $ 6 which is 14 per cent
up this period and at $ 6 basically the
dairy farms are above their break - even point so we do expect to see less stress in
dairy going forward.»
«Market Pack makes briefing our advisers straightforward, so they can keep clients
up to date with
dairy prices and where demand is coming from.
The Italian
dairy sector is starting to look
up after a long period of restructuring that forced more than 30,000 farmers to shut down but tensions remain between producers and processors over
prices, according to a USDA report.
In Ireland weak
dairy prices are pointing to falling profits for the Irish Dairy Board this year, even though the company sales ar
dairy prices are pointing to falling profits for the Irish
Dairy Board this year, even though the company sales ar
Dairy Board this year, even though the company sales are
up.
Fonterra Australia managing director Judith Swales said the
dairy giant is on the hunt for more suppliers and it wants farmers to invest in growth as it announced a step -
up in its average farmgate milk
price to $ 6.64 per kilogram of milk solids.
International
dairy prices are
up 82 per cent from the lows of February, sparking speculation about another big
price spike, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Global
dairy prices leapt
up in January rising more than any other group of food commodities in the monthly Food
Price Index, published by the UN food agency.
The EU's
dairy management committee last week revoked subsidies on all exported
dairy products for the first time in 40 years, as increased demand amongst processors and consumers continues to drive
up prices.
Fonterra Australia's managing director said the
dairy giant is on the hunt for more suppliers and it wants farmers to invest in growth as it announced a step -
up in its average farmgate milk
price.
Murray Goulburn's decision to offer
dairy farmers a lower - than - expected milk
price has set the scene for a major upheaval of the
dairy industry, as rival processors weigh
up whether to break ranks and exact further pain on the besieged co-operative by offering a higher
price.
Some
dairy farmers in the U.S. utilize fatty, sugary treats such as Skittles to «beef
up» their cows, especially when corn
prices are high and farmers seek an alternative way to keep the cows fed.
«We «ve had
dairy shortages for a number of years and the milk
prices are going
up and the milk
prices are carrying the cheese
prices up, «MacDonald says.
In 2008, like all other conventional
prices, the
price for organic feed for
dairy cows and other livestock shot
up so quickly — without milk processors and marketers paying farmers more to make
up the gap — that for the first time in history, conventional
dairy farmers were making more than organic (conventional milk
prices were at unprecedented highs)!
Stronger international
prices of cereals and
dairy drove global food commodity
prices up in March, marketing the second month of a consecutive increase, according to the latest data from the UN's Food Agriculture Organization (FAO).
It is fine when immigration is strong, the property market is going
up and good
dairy prices support a strong currency.
Meat
prices, which rose five per cent last year, are expected to increase
up to another 4.5 per cent in 2016; fish and seafood could rise by
up to three per cent; and
dairy, eggs and grains could see a two per cent increase.
Shareholders have gotten way ahead of themselves in
pricing up their gradual disengagement from low margin Irish
dairy processing.
Dairy farmers say the new regulations will drive
up costs when they're already struggling with five years of drought, low milk
prices and rising labor costs.