China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies … procure raw materials from a diffused supply chain of scattered small farmers and milk collection stations. As milk prices … climbed sharply in 2007 and companies branched out into new territories, intense competition for raw milk supplies …

dairy products. Cheaper milk products have put great pressure on milk producers (lower milk prices), and have had a positive … effect on consumption trends. Milk drinks and some new milk products have been replaced by products with lower milk content … and milk-imitations. …

Milk production and procurement in Poland and UE-15 show a clear seasonal fluctuations which are determined by the … variability featured exports of dairy products and milk supply (deliveries) to the dairy industry. On the other hand procurement …