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Welcome to the BDC agri blog. Here you will find reports from some of the events we attend, as well as Greg's popular weekly view of the UK milk and whey powders market:

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"Many years ago, I got my first job in the dairy industry, as class milk monitor at Tollesbury Primary School.
I thought it was a job for life, but sadly Margaret Thatcher famously ‘snatched’ free school milk,
and the nation’s health has suffered since. Fifty-four years later, I am still musing on the dairy industry,
with an irreverent view of politics and currency ..." Greg Dunn

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    • Jun 26, 2020
    • 1 min read

Agrosom becomes AgriFeed UK

Agrosom Ltd, the UK agent for PIDOLin PCa, has changed hands to become BDC agri's new sister company.


Founded in 2009 by Greg Dunn as a wholly owned subsidiary of the German company Agrosom GmbH, Agrosom Ltd has been bought out by Greg and his wife and business partner Juliet Dunn. The company relaunches as AgriFeed UK on 1 July 2020.


AgriFeed UK will continue to supply animal feed ingredients to the UK animal feed industry, specialising in concentrated protein and energy ingredients used in young animal diets for all farm species.


Through Agrosom Ltd, Greg introduced PIDOLin PCa® (calcium pidolate) to the UK market in 2009 - a speciality product now well recognised for its successful results in poultry rearing and eggshell quality, and its significant benefits in pig and ruminant nutrition.


In addition to PIDOLin PCa, AgriFeed UK’s current product portfolio includes lecithins, dextrose, zinc oxide, potato and pea protein concentrates, full fat dehulled soya meal and extruded linseed products.


AgriFeed UK website coming soon.


Contact Greg Dunn on 07801 308054 or greg@AgriFeed uk.com

    • Jun 23, 2020
    • 1 min read

24 June 2020: No change, no comment

There isn't much to say, so I won't say it. The market is broadly in equilibrium, just the way middlemen don't like it, with no fresh demand or supply news to indicate its next direction. French markets have whey down €10/15, matching the Dutch market move of last week, but skim milk remains unchanged.

Sterling is in an even worse muddle than last week, now struggling to stay above €1.10, now the picture is becoming clearer of how the major European economies are emerging from COVID-19.


BDC agri is the UK broker for Lacto Production milk and whey powder products.

For further information and prices, contact Greg Dunn on 01206 381521 or g.dunn@blackdiamondcommodities.com

    • Jun 18, 2020
    • 1 min read

18 June 2020: More sellers than buyers

I’m glad to say the milk powder market is taking a post-lockdown breather. It seems producers and traders have both been holding back material and are now releasing it into a market that is already largely covered.

Both whey and skim milk supplies are now freely offered, so prices of feed grade have dipped between €10 and €20 over the last week, Normally, this time of year sees cheesemaking going gangbusters and a shortage of SMP, but in the topsy turvy world we now witness, as Henry Ford famously opined, "history is bunk”. It seems the demand from SE Asia is now fulfilled with stock left over, so a gentle drift lower seems more likely than a collapse.

Sterling is back on life support this morning, below €1.11, after UK inflation fell to a four year low, and the spectre of negative interest rates loom larger, ahead of the BoE announcement today.


BDC agri is the UK broker for Lacto Production milk and whey powder products.

For further information and prices, contact Greg Dunn on 01206 381521 or g.dunn@blackdiamondcommodities.com

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