Plant-based meat and dairy have come a long way, but recreating a meat- or dairy-like character without animal ingredients remains hard — and scaling up successes to manufacturing brings its own difficulties. Plant-based meat and dairy face a number of hurdles to winning consumer acceptance — many shoppers see prices
US dairy now produces 76% more milk with fewer cows, as robotics, beef-on-dairy income and component pricing reshape the farmgate. The structural evolution of the US dairy industry over the past four decades has rewritten the fundamentals of milk production, herd genetics and farm revenue models, Dairy Herd Management reports,
Household farms keep abandoning cows en masse (−28.7%), while enterprises posted their first herd growth in years (+2.6%). Poltava and Cherkasy regions remain the largest dairy herds in the country. As of 1 September 2026, Ukraine’s total dairy cow herd (across all farm categories) stood at 926,000 head — down
A round-up of the week’s key events in the dairy sector in Ukraine and around the world 👇 🎉 A quarter-century defending the sector: the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine turns 25On 20 September 2001, an association was born that became the single voice of Ukraine’s dairy sector. 💪
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