Both of Australia’s major supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, have slashed prices on their own-brand milk offerings, in a move which they claim will not affect farmgate prices for their milk...

Fonterra today announced details of a comprehensive support package to help flood-affected dairy farmers in northern Victoria, including a $50,000 donation to the Victorian Farmers Federation Disaster...

Fonterra announced today that it will increase its farmgate milk pirices for Victorian and Tasmanian farmer suppliers after a pricing review. The company will now offer farmers a further 8c per kg of fat,...

The EU has issued data it claims will play down fears that the abolition of milk production quotas in 2015 could flood markets with cheap milk and drive some producers to the wall.In a food commodity forecast...

US dairy giant Dean Foods has jumped on the healthy food and drink bandwagon, launching a health campaign that includes the reformulation of their flavoured milk drinks.Recognising that consumers are now...

Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and collaborators from other institutions have identified a natural substance in dairy fat that may substantially reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes....

The Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, one of China’s largest dairy product manufacturers, has announced a five-year partnership with Walt Disney.Yili will be Disney’s exclusive dairy partner...

Kirin Holdings Company Limited has knocked almost $500 million off the value of dairy heavyweight National Foods, with changes to the carrying value of brands and goodwill on its balance sheet for the...

Fonterra has announced an increase in its forecast Milk Price for the 2010/11 season from $6.60 to $6.90 per kilogram of milksolids (kgMS). Fonterra Chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden said the Board’s...

Milk and meat from the offspring of cloned animals would not need to carry labels informing consumers of the origin of the food, the UK’s food-safety watchdog has argued. A meeting of the Food Standards...