Parmalat, an Italian group, has bought two dairy businesses, giving it a 23% market share.
Miguel Teubal, an economist at the University of Buenos Aires, reckons that two dairy farms a day are disappearing to make way for soya.
Even so, the dairy farmers face two big challenges.
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A. We do have two or three dairy farms in California that are on our website that are actively for sale, and we did bring a client to one.
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Its size, meanwhile, is letting Couche-Tard get better supplier deals and set up more distribution centers, either wholly owned or in partnership with a convenience store wholesaler, such as Warren Buffett's McLane in the eastern U.S. The centers give Bouchard the ability to ship dairy products, sandwiches and pastries to stores two to three times a week to outflank the grocery chains.
Despite the undoubted achievements of the "SOS Dairy" campaign it was always a surprise that these two very different groups of farmers came together in the first place.
It has shown up in testing done on milk and yogurt, prompting at least two supermarket chains in Hong Kong to pull dairy products by Mengniu and Yili from store shelves, representatives from the companies told CNN Friday.
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Jim Oberweis Jr. grew up in his family's two businesses: a money management firm and a retail dairy enterprise.
The dairy plans include three large buildings, a fodder storage unit, two slurry stores and a water storage tower.
In recent years, two new factors have significantly contributed to price volatility in the dairy industry.
Two of the nation's most popular milk chocolate bars, Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Mars Galaxy, have a minimum 26% cocoa and 25% respectively.
As if the attentions of one competition watchdog were not enough, the Office of Fair Trading, too, has two big investigations pending into supermarkets' pricing practices one on milk and other dairy products, the other on tobacco.
When Scott York first showed up in Loudoun County more than two decades ago, he found a rural patch of northern Virginia with 80, 000 residents and 300 dairy farms.
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