TheDairySite Latest News: Russian Federation
20 July 2010

RUSSIA - The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) affecting cattle, swine and sheep/goats in Russia....
04 June 2010
25 May 2010

RUSSIA - AgroFarm, the international exhibition for animal husbandry and breeding, is being held in Moscow for the fourth time from 26 to 28 May 2010. ...
22 March 2010

RUSSIA - While the fourth quarter of 2009 was an extremely difficult period for local dairy producers, both Valio (Finland) and Arla (Denmark) have reported a huge increase in sales for 2009, writes Alla Barinova, Manager, Bord Bia Moscow....
02 February 2010

RUSSIA - A plan to raise self-sufficiency in food production was approved by President Medvedev on Monday (1 February). ...
26 January 2010

RUSSIA - DSM Nutritional Products, a subsidiary of Royal DSM in The Netherlands, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences Company, has signed a joint venture agreement with Tatenergo JSC for the construction of an Animal Nutrition & Health premix...
22 December 2009

RUSSIA - DLG offers an update on the latest developments in Russian animal production in the run-up to AgroFarm 2010. New investments are planned and international technology is much in demand, says DLG. The show will take place in Moscow on 26 to 28...
10 December 2009

RUSSIA - A new report on the future of agribusiness suggests the country's target of self-sufficiency in poultry meat and pork by 2011 will not be reached, however. ...
08 December 2009

RUSSIA - Food security was top of the agenda at a recent meeting, attended by President Dmitry Medvedev. The President is pushing for food resources to be primarily based on home-grown products. ...
14 September 2009

RUSSIAN FEDERATION - More and more Russian meat farmers are deciding to sell their business due to huge losses suffered in the current financial conditions....
23 June 2009

RUSSIA - Russian President Medvedev has announced that meat imports will account for one-quarter of all meat consumption this year, down from one-third in 2008. ...
17 June 2009

MOSCOW - Russia and Belarus have rounded up talks on the ‘dairy problem’ and have reached an agreement that both sides find acceptable, Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said late night Tuesday after talks with Belarussian officials....
12 June 2009

RUSSIA - More than 8,000 expert visitors from all regions in Russia attended the AgroFarm exhibitionin Moscow in May. The exhibition grew by around five per cent, providing an important platform for further development of animal production in Russia....
10 June 2009

RUSSIA - Visitor numbers were up VIV Russia 2009 despite the worldwide recession....
20 April 2009

RUSSIA - Russia has spent about $8 billion over the last four years importing breeding cattle to reestablish a beef and milk industry....
09 March 2009

RUSSIA - Russia is one of the world's fastest growing dairy markets but declining cattle numbers are starting to limit further growth. That means the Russian dairy industry is turning to technology to boost productivity....
22 October 2008

RUSSIA - The rapid growth of Russia's poultry and pig industries has created demand for distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), according to a US Grains Council consultant in Russia....
22 February 2008

RUSSIA - Russia-based Wimm-Bill-Dann has announced the opening of what it calls a $12m mega dairy farm outside of St. Petersburg as part of a wider focus on stepping up the supply of high quality milk for its operations. ...
04 December 2007

RUSSIA - Nutritek, a leading Russia-based manufacturer of infant nutrition products, is selling off its dairy and agro business operations in the country to focus on functional baby food production in Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
23 October 2007

ST PETERSBURG - City Hall plans to freeze prices for milk containing 2.5 percent fat, kefir and sour cream containing 15 percent fat, Fontanka.ru news portal announced....
12 July 2007

MOSCOW - Russia's premier said domestic farm production will increase 23% by 2012 under the government's five-year agricultural program, with agricultural development being one of the national welfare projects. ...
12 December 2006

RUSSIA - As of December 11 Russia has lifted the ban on the importation of industrially manufactured and heat-treated meat and dairy products from Brazil. Simultaneously it banned deliveries of pig meat from a U.S. meat packaging company for free sale....
17 October 2006

RUSSIA - A case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease has been discovered in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania, the Federal Control Service for Consumer Rights said Tuesday. ...