Prevention of a sharp jump in prices for dairy products in Russia has become one of the key issues discussed at the 12th Congress of the National Association of Milk Producers. Representatives of the dairy industry, relevant line agencies and ministries gathered to sum up the results of the Association's activities over the past year and establish the main short-term goals. As the tradition goes, the session was opened by Stefan Duerr, Chairman of the Management Board of Soyuzmoloko.

EkoNiva has recently opened its 43d brand shop. The first EkoNiva ‘milky island’ in Ryazan oblast appeared in the urban locality of Aleksandro-Nevskiy and attracted lots of shoppers during the first hours of operation.

Cow footbaths and milk soup for calves! These topics are included into the ongoing professional development programme that helps EkoNiva specialists understand how to improve dairy cow comfort and maximize their well-being. This time, young professionals are undergoing a training session on Gusevo dairy farm of Kaluzhskaya Niva.

A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Tatarstan Republic has paid a call on EkoNiva's production facilities located in Kursk and Voronezh oblasts. The working visit was aimed at getting acquainted with the company’s work experience in seed breeding and production, milk processing and dairy manufacture.

Ravshan Uralov, Herdsman of Severnaya Niva Organic, has ‘adopted’ a calf rejected by its mother.

The main cost item in dairy business is feed. Proper cow nutrition can turn the expenses related to it into profit, because the better a cow is fed the more milk it yields. Every step of fodder preparation and feed mixing is important. Specialists develop a detailed plan of the entire process and choose appropriate machinery models to ensure maximum efficiency. At a large-scale event, held at Ogneva Zaimka dairy, a part of Sibirskaya Niva-Cherepanovo, EkoNiva experts presented the machinery necessary to serve the feeding needs of a modern farm to specialists and managers of the largest farming enterprises in Siberia.

Agrarzeitung newspaper, 05.02.2021