Organic dairy sector rebounds as industry aims to ‘win hearts and minds’
Sales of organic milk and yogurt are up but cheese is still suffering, as the industry strives to win “hearts and minds”after the recession, says farmers' co-operative OMSCo.
Sales of organic milk and yogurt are up but cheese is still suffering, as the industry strives to win “hearts and minds”after the recession, says farmers' co-operative OMSCo.
Asda’s margin-crushing promotional activity on liquid milk has prompted a wave of price-cutting that has contributed to “a material destruction of category profitability”, according to one City analyst.
Robert Wiseman Dairies has slashed profit forecasts on the back of intense competition and higher fuel and packaging costs.
A multi-million-pound ultra high energy mixer that its backers hoped would create nano-emulsions with exciting new properties has so far failed to live up to expectations.
A groundbreaking study exploring the potential of bioactive compounds in broccoli and garlic to slow or prevent the breakdown of cartilage is one of nine projects to secure a share of £4m, in the final funding round of the Diet and Health Research...