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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:

"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

24 October 2018

Oct 24, 20181 min read

Today's distilled wisdom. Only two chunks of definite news, one that WPC35 has gone through the roof, as there is a shortage Europe-wide, and two that there was successful sales of 20,000t SMP from intervention at €1231 per tonne, leaving the CMR market flat and whey with it.

No other pointers that I can see, the Dutch market is still flatlining. No other news.

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

BDC agri at the British Pig and Poultry Fair 2018

May 22, 20181 min read

BDC agri's Steve Graffham and Greg Dunn with Benjamin Pollet of Dietaxion (centre)

BDC agri enjoyed a very busy and successful couple of days at the British Pig & Poultry Fair on 15/16 May.

Our stand focused on three products:

1. Our new PIGLETO supplementary milk replacer for piglets, manufactured by our longstanding French trading partners, Lacto Production.

2. COBIOTEX, the world's first registered bacteria-based biocide:

3. Agrosom's PIDOLin PCa calcium pidolate, which has successfully been used in UK poultry production for nearly a decade, but is now also being introduced into pig production, following some very exciting trial results.

Our daily prize draw for a 20kg bag of PIGLETO was won by Craig Brown of Porters Animal Feeds and Callum Duff of Rattlerow Farm Pig Breeding Development.

We were joined by our friends Benjamin Pollet of Dietaxion and Andre Yves Bourges of Nutringredients and his wife Dominique.

While many people made their way to the BDC agri/Agrosom stand to talk to Greg, Steve and Benjamin about the products we supply, even more came along to claim their free BDC agri squishy pig, after seeing them on social media in the run-up to the show. Check out this blog post for pics of the adorable #BDCagriPigs on their long journey from Mersea Island to Stoneleigh.

The #BDCagriPigs make the long journey from Mersea Island to Stoneleigh ...

May 22, 20181 min read

In case you missed them on social media, here are the BDC agri squishy pigs, on their trek from Mersea Island in Essex, all the way to Stoneleigh in Warwickshire.