A round-up of the week’s key events in the dairy industry in Ukraine and around the world 👇
🇺🇦 What if Ukraine joins the EU? Rabobank explores the impact on European food and agriculture
Ukraine’s accession to the EU would integrate a vast agricultural sector into the European market, creating both opportunities and risks for EU food and agriculture.
🌱 EU’s soy import dependency called ‘structural and severe’
A new report argues that Europe’s dependence on imported soy should be treated as a ‘strategic vulnerability’.
🇳🇱 Gateway Ukraine Business Guide: online webinar on Ukraine’s recovery market
A practical webinar will present the new Gateway Ukraine Business Guide and show how Dutch companies can find opportunities, manage risks and take next steps in Ukraine’s recovery market.
🇨🇳 From food security to rural modernisation: China’s 15th Five-Year Plan
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) marks a shift towards a more security-centred and technology-oriented model of agricultural development.
💪 What’s driving America’s protein obsession?
Americans rarely agree on what they should eat. But right now there is one consensus: they want more protein and less sugar.
🔬 June in review: GLP-1s drive demand, the gut-brain axis and an EU vitamin limits warning
Metabolic health, mental wellbeing, EU vitamin limits and protein differentiation were the key themes driving product development in the nutrition industry in June.
🧀 ‘Cracking casein is the essential key to making a better animal-free cheese’ — Ted Jin
AuX Labs has raised US$4 million to commercialise a precision-fermentation platform aimed at one of alt-dairy’s hardest problems — animal-free cheese with the texture, stretch and melt that foodservice demands.
🇳🇿 Fonterra: New Zealand’s grass-fed dairy standard is key to building consumer trust
The dairy industry is seeing growing demand for milk and dairy products from cows fed predominantly on grass, against a backdrop of rising consumer interest in transparency, regenerative farming and minimally processed products.
🍃ESG: Dairy waste instead of chemicals: Poland develops breakthrough biofertilisers
Scientists at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (PWr) are researching the conversion of dairy industry waste into biofertilisers.
🍃ESG: Coopérative U renews its Bleu-Blanc-Coeur milk partnership
French retail group Coopérative U, dairy company LSDH and APLBC have renewed their three-way, three-year partnership for the Bleu-Blanc-Coeur milk supply chain.
🇵🇱 Poland’s milk intake 2026: one region leads the growth
In May 2026, raw milk supply for collection on the Polish domestic market was more than 3% higher than in April 2026.
🍃ESG: European Commission adopts finalized corporate sustainability reporting standards
The European Commission has adopted the finalized revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) for companies covered by the EU’s mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), along with a voluntary reporting standard for smaller companies.
⚡«Energy independence is now the main survival factor»— Viktoriia Kailiuk
Terra Food, one of Ukraine’s largest dairy holdings, has moved well beyond milk processing: it runs the Zelena Dolyna agricultural complex, invests in solar power and plans to develop bioenergy to close its production loop.
🐄Epicentr Agro’s farms confirm their breeding-farm status
In early June, an expert commission carried out an on-site assessment of the livestock complexes of Agroholding 2012, part of Epicentr Agro.
👨🌾Astarta continues the systematic development of its dairy farming
Agro-industrial holding Astarta is steadily modernising its livestock facilities, investing in farm upgrades, better animal welfare and greater production efficiency.
