Better Dairy to disrupt hard aged cheese sector with animal-free offering
UK-based food-tech firm Better Dairy has secured US$22 million in Series A funding, edging it closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase. Better Dairy – which is in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation – produces products that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy. The company…
Better Dairy to disrupt hard aged cheese sector with animal-free offering
UK-based food-tech firm Better Dairy has secured US$22 million in Series A funding, edging it closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase. Better Dairy – which is in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation – produces products that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy. The company…
Global dairy prices rise 5.1 percent to record high after April 2013
The previous price record for global dairy products was set in April 2013. The average price at the fortnightly global dairy auction rose 5.1 percent to US$5065 a tonne, after rising 4.2 percent in the previous auction. The Global Dairy Trade price index hit 1593, breaking the previous record of 1573 in April 2013. The…
People don’t want quarter inch drill.They want quarter inch holes
People don’t want quarter inch drill.They want quarter inch holes. Theodore Levitt wrote this in an article Marketing Myopia way back in 1960 . The context of this article is to highlight the inability of the marketer to see the big picture. Most of the time the marketers are focussing too narrowly on selling their…
Happy Shivratri ! Amul increases milk prices by Rs 2 per liter
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) has increased the price of milk by Rs 2 per litre in all markets across India. The new prices will be effective from Tuesday. This is the second time this fiscal that the price of milk is being hiked. In June 2021, GCMMF raised the price by Rs…
Solar-powered milking machines: Sunny side to dairy products
Cattle form an integral, sacred bond with the Indian farmer. Apart from their role in tilling the soil, bovines also provide milk as a source of both sustenance and income. Considering that dairy farming constitutes an important aspect of the country’s agro-oriented economy, a lot of time and energy goes into milking cows and buffaloes,…
J&K’s milky way: Tapping dairy farming potential in the valley
Livestock is emerging as an important sector in the socio-economic development of Jammu and Kashmir. With almost 80 per cent of the Union Territory population residing in rural areas, about 60 per cent of total revenue is generated by the agriculture and animal husbandry sector. As such, dairying has the potential to become an additional…
Tiruchi Aavin looks to tap demand for milk powder in North Indian markets
The Tiruchi District Milk Producers’ Cooperative Union, which is marketing its dairy products under Aavin, plans to tap the North Indian market to sell its skimmed milk powder (SMP). The union produces SMP at the plants owned by the Tamil Nadu Milk Producers’ Federation in Erode and Krishnagiri. The Tiruchi Aavin sends surplus milk after…
Powdered Baby Formulas Recalled After Hospitalizations and 1 Death
Abbott Laboratories has initiated a voluntary recall of select powder baby formulas, including Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare manufactured in Sturgis, Michigan, following three reports of Cronobacter sakazakii infections and one report of Salmonella Newport infection in infants. All four babies became seriously ill and had to be hospitalized, and health authorities believe Cronobacter may have contributed to the death of one…
Vijaya Dairy hike farmer’s prices to 41.64 for buff and 32.64 for cow milk
Telangana Vijaya Dairy has increased the prices of milk being procured from dairy farmers by Rs 4.68 per litre for buffallo milk and Rs 2.88 per litre for cow milk. As per directions of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, the revised prices will come into force with retrospective effect from February 16. Accordingly, the buffallo…