International Dairy
Sarel Moore visits Elsenburg
Hi, Milk Fans
Sarel Moore of the South African Milk Recording Scheme visited today and gave the thumbs up for Elsenburg Dairy Lab to do analysis for them in the Western Cape!
The tests to be done are fat, protein, lactose, urea and somatical cell count.
Thanks, Sarel
Leon the Milkman
Mark van der Walt visits Elsenburg
Hi, Milk Fans
Yes, it’s true! Mark of Rhine Ruhr South Africa visited us today and calibrated the CombiFoss for Urea.  No we didn’t piddle in a can!
Thanks, Mark
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Cheese in China
Hi, Cheese fans
Chinese dairy companies have been urged to take advantage of abundant domestic resources of buffalo and sheep milk to grab a share of the country’s burgeoning cheese market.
This could be a big opportunity for the right company! Check out the scope for growth here:Â Â Â
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-07/16/content_641753.htm
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Dr. Conradie visits Elsenburg
Hi, Milk Fans
Parmalat’s National Milk Producers Quality Manager for South Africa visited me today to photograph my new equipment – the CombiFoss Milk Analyser 😉
Send some business my way please, sir!
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
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Feta vs. Danish Feta
Hi, Cheese Fans
The main difference between the above two cheese are that the danish feta has more moisture, thus it is not as sour. Danish Feta usually is made through the modern process of Ultra Filtration, where the whey proteins are retained in the cheese with the casein, giving softer, creamier cheese and much higher yields. Good for you and good for the manufacturer. 😉
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
South African Dairy News
Hi, South African Dairy Fans
Here is some home-grown news bits:
Humansdorp dairy sells stake to BEE firms
Read it here:Â http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/biz/02_10072006.htm
Namibia: SA Dairy Traders Fight Tariff Raise
Some importers and distributors of South African dairy products are up in arms over plans by the government to introduce a tariff increase on imported UHT milk.
Read the rest here: http://allafrica.com/stories/200607101001.html
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Milk conspiracy theory and politics
Note to Food and Water Watch & Reminder to Starbucks – Activists Should Stop Masquerading as Consumers.
This is one hell of a good article that sheds light on a few political dairy issues. Read it:
Sorry about the massive link ;-), but click it anyway.
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
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Production cut no help to poor milk prices
Hi, Milk Fans
Scottish dairy farmers have rejected persistent claims that they could get a better farmgate price by cutting production.
Read the rest of the article here:
http://business.scotsman.com/agriculture.cfm?id=957782006
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
A Dairy Farm Where Milk and Manure Pay the Bills
Hi, Cow Fans
The cows at the Audet family’s Blue Spruce Farm make nearly 9,000 gallons of milk a day—and about 35,000 gallons of manure.
It’s long been the milk that pays, but now the Audets have figured out how to make the manure pay as well. They’re using it—actually, the methane that comes from it—to generate electricity.
Read the rest here:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_060630_manure.html
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
Here is an article with some financial figures as well: Economics of producing methane gas from cow manure to generate onfarm electricity (University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Bulletin) (University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Bulletin)
Dairy farm finds energy source right under its nose
Hi, Dairy Farmers
Three years ago Lebanon’s biggest dairy farm, LibanLait, was confronting two seemingly unrelated problems: the rising cost of generating enough power to operate the dairy plant, and how to dispose of the approximately 160,000 pounds of cow manure that accumulated daily.
Read how they solved this dairy problem:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=73546
Kind regards,
Leon the Milkman
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