A round-up of the week’s key events in the dairy sector in Ukraine and worldwide 👇
💙 Language of care without words: how Yagotinske turns bottles into warm stories for loved ones
The «Yagotinske — for those you love» campaign puts 38 unique stories on the labels of its milk, kefir and ryazhanka PET bottles.
🇫🇷 Milk prices in France: sparring ahead of the start of trade negotiations
French retailers, dairy farmers and processors are already trading statements on price transparency — a month before annual talks with suppliers open, due to conclude on 1 March.
🇪🇺 EDA Dairy Flash #13/2026: dedicated Ukraine session, new heart-health factsheet and school milk results
The European Dairy Association’s (EDA) weekly bulletin: the 14-16 October Bratislava convention features a dedicated Ukraine dairy session, plus a new cardiovascular-health factsheet, World School Milk Day results and the International Whey Conference in Chicago.
🍎 School meals: what and how often should be on a Ukrainian pupil’s menu?
Vegetables daily. Fruit and berries regularly. Fish twice a week. Legumes at least three times. And potatoes must alternate with cereal and legume dishes.
⛓️ Supply chain pressures are testing the resilience of the dairy industry
Dairy is one of agriculture’s most mean-reverting markets, but geopolitical and environmental pressures threaten its usual cyclicality.
🇵🇱 Dairy market under pressure: Poland’s «Polish Milk» Congress kicks off
Price pressure and production costs are forcing milk producers to decide on investment, herd growth and cutting labour input. Farmers, experts and dairy-company representatives are discussing what could decide profitability in the coming months.
🥤 Gut-health beverages: formulation strategies
Kefir is an ideal carrier for gut-health and «beauty from within» benefits — above all in drinks.
🇪🇺Taras Vysotskyi: Ukraine will not accept EU membership with permanent limits on farm exports
Kyiv is ready for transition periods and quotas, but not for permanent restrictions, the minister stressed.
🇺🇦 «Ukraine has enough food, but war is driving up producers’ costs» — Taras Vysotskyi
Constant attacks create new risks for logistics and processing.
🐄 Biotech startup develops new feed additive to cut methane emissions from cattle
A University of Illinois alumna co-founded Hoofprint Biome, which develops enzymes to cut methane and improve digestion in cows.
🧈 Ukraine aligns requirements for butter and dairy fat content with EU rules
Ukraine is aligning its requirements for butter and permitted fat-content deviations in dairy products with European Union (EU) rules, according to the official website of the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine (UDEU).
🇺🇸 IDFA: EU requirements are raising costs for the US dairy industry
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has warned that European due-diligence requirements are raising costs for US dairy processors and farmers, DairyReporter reports.
🥛 The Protein Economy: How One Nutrient Is Reshaping Dairy from Farm to Shelf
Protein is rewriting the dairy playbook: why what is in the milk now matters more than how much milk you make.
