May’s food for thought…

• World-first low-emission milk
• WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report released
• Good dairy farm practices see uptick in water quality
• The next dairy ‘superfood’ could be… fortified buffalo yogurt
• Manthan: The Indian film at Cannes made by half a million farmers

World-first low-emission milk – from eDairy News. Tasmanian dairy producer Ashgrove, in partnership with Sea Forest, has released the world’s first commercially available low-emission milk, Ashgrove Eco-Milk. Read the story.

WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report released - The World Metereological Organisation’s report confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45 °Celsius (with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.12 °C) above the pre-industrial baseline. It was the warmest ten-year period on record. Download a copy of the report.

Good dairy farm practices see uptick in water quality – from eDairyNews. Twenty years of monitoring dairy farms in five catchments across New Zealand has revealed significant improvements in water quality. Read the article

The next dairy ‘superfood’ could be… fortified buffalo yogurt - from FoodNavigator.com. A nutritional powerhouse that packs more protein and less cholesterol than cow's milk yogurt, buffalo yogurt is ripe for functional innovation, a study suggests. Read the article

Manthan: The Indian film at Cannes made by half a million farmers – BBC News. In the mid-1970s, half a million dairy farmers in India's western state of Gujarat contributed two rupees each to make a ground-breaking film. Manthan (The Churning), directed by venerated filmmaker Shyam Benegal, became the country's first crowd-funded film. Nearly 50 years after it was made, a pristinely restored Manthan is receiving a red-carpet world premiere this week at the Cannes Film Festival. Read the article