Governments spend considerable resources providing goods directly. We show that such behavior may increase welfare when private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk "ration stores" in Mexico using a proprietary panel of...

The European Union is a large producer of milk and dairy products. It is also a significant market for the consumption of dairy products, which is characterised by effective demand, and it significantly influences the markets of other food products. The main milk producers in the EU are Germany,...

Governments spend considerable resources providing goods directly. We show that such behavior may increase welfare when private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk “ration stores” in Mexico using a proprietary panel of...

Dairy systems, which are the main pillars of rural livelihoods in north-eastern Europe encounter ecological, economic, and political changes in their operating environments which threaten their capacity to provide dairy supply. As uncertainty increases, there is a need to increase understanding...

Analyses of spatial market integration contributes to the knowledge about market efficiency and provides information to policymakers, as the spatial integration of markets contributes to competitiveness and economic development. Although the integration of agri-food markets is widely discussed...

Background: The global dairy market is experiencing a massive transition as dairy farming has recently undergone modernization. As a result, the dairy industry needs to improve its operational efficiencies by implementing effective optimization techniques. Conventional and emerging optimization...

In the United States, over 70% of milk production is priced under Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs). A primary purpose of FMMOs is to facilitate orderly allocation of milk as a limited, perishable resource among alternative uses. Fundamental to FMMOs are the regulatory prices applicable to...

For over a century, pediatricians, scientists, and industry players have sought to create an infant formula that would be as close as possible to human milk. Until recently, their efforts focused on “humanizing” cow’s milk by making its composition more similar to human milk. But in the...

The success of every corporate organization depends on marketing. In today's market, the dairy sector has significant growth potential. Marketing mix tactics, consumer survey marketing and competition analysis are some of the tools that can help a company succeed. Following these tips, a...

Given the mounting importance of today’s agricultural policies to mitigate the environmental pressure from agricultural activities and to bolster the concurrent economic productivity, policymakers advocate that emerging farming technologies might be a viable response to this challenge. We draw...

US dairy futures markets of milk, butter, cheese, and dry whey exhibit unique volatility patterns under the Federal Milk Marketing Order pricing scheme. We show dairy volatilities have a relatively low connectedness among themselves and a commodity index. Dairy futures markets respond to...

Milk tea is a well-known beverage that has been popular since 2011. The study investigates the factors that affect the consumer’s loyalty wherein consumer satisfaction and service quality are involved. Including the designs, tastes of milk tea, right measurement of ingredients, quality...

The paper presents issues related to milk production in the Member States of the European Union. The conducted analysis and research cover the period from 2015 to 2019. The study evaluates milk production and milk prices and uses the linear Pearson’s correlation in order to find out whether...

It’s 2021 and powdered human milk is all the rage. Not powdered coffee, powdered soup or powdered cow’s milk, but powdered human milk. Powdered human milk sounds like an infant food tech revolution, but actually, it is at least over a century old. The global comeback of powdered human milk...

Domestic animals, especially small ruminants, are an important source of income for millions of smallholder farmers, particularly women, in Senegal. The aim of this study was to understand the place of the bovine and caprine milk value chains and to identify the role and challenges for women in...

Profitability in animal production is at the forefront of approaches and activities continuity, and the breakeven point, or equilibrium point from which profit generation begins, must be reached in the shortest possible time. In the present paper, the breakeven point is analyzed for cow's,...

This article presents the milk market in the period 2017-2021 highlighting aspects regarding the evolution of the herd (cows), milk production, price, consumption, import, export, market characteristics, the main dairy producers in Romania, but also a series of conclusions that are the basis of...

The paper presents the average results for the period 2018-2020 of 54 case studies conducted in dairy farms located in different geographical regions of Romania, different landforms and of different sizes. In terms of farm size, it is between 5.0 - 568.3 dairy cows (6,002.3 - 682,261.4 SO), of...

The paper presents the analysis of synthetic economic indicators from 2018-2020 for a number of 30 dairy farms in various areas of the country, which were the subject of case studies. The purpose of analyzing the indicators is to know the essence of the elements that contributed to obtaining...

A total of 100 newly collected dairy cattle (after parturition) of which 20 local and 80 crossbred varieties of mini dairy farms from urban and semi-urban areas of Rajshahi district were selected for the study. They were divided into four groups depending on different feeding practices viz.,...

Breastfeeding in public has become more accepted, but milk expression—defined as removing milk from the breasts manually or using a breast pump—continues to be seen as a distasteful bodily function analogous to urination or sex, which should be confined to the private sphere. Few states...

The continued penetration of plant-based beverages in fluid milk markets appears to have reinforced the ongoing decline in the U.S. per capita consumption of fluid cow milk. This study focuses on how demographic variables and consumers’ opinions about climate change impact the preference for...

Calcium deficiency in high yielding bovines during calving causes “milk fever” which leads to economic losses of around ₹ 1,000 crores (US $ 137 million) per annum in Haryana, India. With increasing milk production, the risk of milk fever is continuously rising. In the context, we aim to...