The termination of Australia's Domestic Market Support scheme for manufacturing milk producers and the end of state market milk (fluid milk) pricing regulations on June 30, 2000 made Australia's dairy industry arguably the most deregulated in the world. Australia's milk production will become...

This Discussion Paper focuses on strategic adjustments made by leading international dairy firms in response to world market developments in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Firms whose strategies were analyzed include Fonterra, Nestle, selected other Western European companies (including the...

This Discussion Paper describes developments affecting Parmalat of Italy, once one of the world's leading dairy-food firms, which filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2003. After the bankruptcy, it was discovered that fraud on a massive scale had occurred at Parmalat, putting the firm in...

This Discussion Paper provides an analysis of the structure of Argentine dairy and non-dairy food expenditures using a series of econometric models.

Doha Round of WTO Negotiations: Framework for Agricultural Modalities Contains Less than Meets the Eye

2004 U.S. Dairy Exports Up, Dairy Trade Gap Narrows

Collapse of the Doha Round WTO Negotiations: Implications for the U.S. Dairy Industry

The USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) publishes an annual estimate of agricultural exports by state. This Babcock Institute update focuses on Wisconsin dairy exports from ERS's latest report covering FY2004.

This Discussion Paper summarizes (a) key elements of the competitive environment facing Ireland's dairy processors, (b) the overall dairy industry structure that has emerged in Ireland, and (c) the strategies of Ireland's dairy processing and exporting firms. The strategies employed by Ireland's...