Competitiveness and competition are basic categories of the market economy. While analyzing the foreign trade they acquire an international aspect. After the Polish accession to the EU, the Polish dairy industry showed a very favourable performance as regards the foreign trade, which can confirm...

Milk production and procurement in Poland and UE-15 show a clear seasonal fluctuations which are determined by the distribution of calving and feeding regimes. The seasonal fluctuations are transferred on the consequent stages of the food chain and also have got numerous microeconomic...

Dairy cooperative structures in Ireland have evolved through time. Ireland’s twentieth century dairy cooperatives emerged in a market environment that is vastly different from the one in which they operate today. This paper looks firstly at the broad evolution of structural changes in...

Ukraine belongs to the TOP 20 global producers of milk. Despite its position, the Ukrainian dairy industry is suffering from a permanent deficit of raw milk supplied for processing. on average, in 2007–2011 over half of the produced raw milk did not reach the processors. one of the...

Productivity measurement is useful in some circumstances but not others. Measured productivity is poor for the Australian dairy industry as a whole. This finding is consistent across a range of studies and is confirmed by other information and analysis.It is useful to explore reasons for this...