Personnel for Dairy Farming

Tetiana Antonenko, International Dairy Magazine

That’s not a secret, that those know about the problem of training dairy farm employees the best, who communicate constantly with teachers and students of our agricultural Universities. If you read some of our interviews, taken for the magazine “Milk and Farm”, you will get some idea about how milk industry is provided with skilled experts.

Dutch Milk Day in Ukraine

Olga Zarytska

It was celebrated on September, 17 in Cherkasy region. The event organizers are “Dykun Global Consult” company, the Netherlands Embassy in Ukraine and Association of Dairy Producers. Among the sponsors of the Dutch Dairy Day in Ukraine were MSD Animal Health, UNIFORM-AGRI, Lely East, Agroinmash, Norvet, Ukragropostach.

Milk Rivers for the Black Continent

Ruslana Butylo

Ukrainian dairy export isn’t diversified enough. Most dairy products get to near-abroad, especially to Russia. Having some priorities our neighbor sometimes sets limitations or blocks imports of Ukrainian dairy products. Such steps influence negatively both dairy processors and producers. As a result, there is a need to look for new markets, where Ukrainian operators could distribute their products. 

Millet and Sorgo in the Dairy Cattle Rations

Maria Yaroshko

The productivity of milking herd depends not only on the sufficient amount of feed, but also on its quality, balance and nutrition qualities. Experts in crop farming and cattle breeding are in constant searching of optimal solutions. 

Emiel van Haaren. Building a Goat Farm — Successful Business

Year after year more people consume products made with goat milk. Traditionally they are used for old, ill people, babies and children with dairy allergy. Moreover goat milk is more nutritious than cow milk. We asked Emiel van Haaren, a worldwide famous expert in goat and sheep breeding, how to make healthy products accessible to the Ukrainians and what rules we should follow if we want to start this business. He has accomplished many successful projects in different countries. The greatest was realized in Saudi Arabia — a farm with 15 000 goats.

Abolition of Milk Quotas in the EU: the Impact on Ukrainian Dairy Industry

Tetiana Antonenko, International Dairy Magazine

It’s not the first year when international dairy community, especially European, discusses possible impact on dairy production after abolition of milk quotas in EU. Such a term as ‘postquotas period’ has appeared in analytical reports. European Parliament also works on scenarios of dairy industry development after 2015. Experts criticize some of its work. Business doesn’t ‘stand still’ as well: huge investments in equipment for milk-powder production affirms that processing is preparing for ‘milk tsunami’. There is a point that milk producers won’t be able to raise production essentially.

Comparative Analysis of Fat Used for Cattle Feeding

Andrii Lemeshev, TH ‘Bios’, LLC

Nowadays there are a lot of ‘protected’ fats issued from palm oil. It is important to differentiate between them (They are not of equal value), because they are produced through different stages of development and design of ‘protected’ feed supplement, using different manufacturing processes and characterized according to different levels of good and harm.

National Farm Day

August 28, 2013 became a day when National Farm Day was celebrated in Ukraine for the first time. The event took place on the premises of the dairy complex «Katerynoslavskii» in Dnipropetrovsk. About three hundred experts in dairy industry became its participants and among them managers and specialists of agricultural enterprises, agents of trading companies and business associations. The event was organized by Ukrainian Dairy Association (UDA) and the agriconsulting company «Dykun». Principal sponsors of the National Farm Day were LLC «Limagrain Ukraine », LLC «BASF» and LLC «John Deer Ukraine».

The role of protein in the diet of dairy cattle

Maria Yaroshko, MA MBA, Associate NimATs

In the animal organism proteins are being produced continuously because they are necessary for growth and reproduction, the synthesis of biologically active compounds, recovery of cells that die and formation of products - milk or meat.

Not everything is sold

Interviewed by Nataliya Pahaychuk

Stepan Ivakhiv is a co-founder of financial-industrial group «Continuum», which is a leading player in the dairy market of Ukraine. In the «Continuum» Stepan was responsible for the milk line and now walked away from business management, as became the Member of Parliament of Ukraine. In the Parliament Ivakhiv is a Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations. His experience in the dairy business he uses in lawmaking.