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Arctic Goat Husbandry- Market potential for goat products

• Is the potential for goat husbandry in circumpolar arias utilized?

• Can an arctic profile be a competitive advantage for goat products?

• Is there a niche market for arctic goat cheese?

CAC 2007

Odd Arild Finnes

Bioforsk Nord Holt

Bioforsk Norwegian Institue for Agricultural and EnviromentalResearch

Bioforsk NordArctic Agriculture and Land Use Division

Sections:· Arctic Agriculture and Quality

· Environment and Land Resources

· Northern Norwegian Centre of Expertise

Geographical Units:· Holt

· Bodø (Vågønes)

· Tjøtta

www.bioforsk.no

Goat - worldwide position

• The worlds most common domestic animal?

• Goat products

� Meat

� Milk

� Fibre (mohair, cashmere)

� Skin

• Many different breeds

• Normally on small scale farms, ”The poor mans cow”

• Prefer bush lands more than grass pastures

Norwegian goat husbandry - status

• 45 000 goats spread on 560 farms

• More than 90% dairy goats

• 40% of the production in the northern part of Norway

• Massive structural changes. In ten years the number of farms reduced with almost 50 %. Total milk production is stable

• Quota system

• Goat husbandry makes up a small part of the Norwegian husbandry and has a relatively weak organisational position

• Changing market for goat products

Goat milk production

Challenges in Norway:

• Housing

– Animal welfare

– New technology

• Health

– Program to eradicate three contagious diseases in the Norwegian goat population (CLA, paratubercolosis, CAE)

• Grazing and bush control (outlying fields)

– Positive for keeping the landscape open

– Conflict with forest cultivation

Goat milk products

Products in Norway

• Brown cheese (Whey Goat Cheese)

–Dominating position today, decreasing

• White cheese

–White cheese production is given priority from the Norwegian dairy industry

–New products and more diversity of cheeses are required

–Quality regime

• Direct consumption

–More easily digestible fat and protein

–Less allergenic

Kid meat

• Kids fed for 6 weeks – 7 kg carcass

• Exclusive food

• Up till now not paid well enough to give the farmer profit

• New project to open a high end market in Tromsø

Dairy industry

• TINE BA is the sales and marketing organisation for Norway's dairy cooperative http://tine.no

- Norway's largest food industry. 52 plants all over the country,6 of them prepare goat milk

- Strategy for improving quality and increase consumption of goatproducts

• Increasing number of farmers start their own small scale cheese production

Trends in the market

• Generally more positive attitude towards goats and goat products

• Exclusive products?

• Milder taste

– Norwegian goat milk generally have a tart flavour

• International products

– Market influenced by tourism and immigration

• More diversity

– ”Don`t go to the zoo, - go to the jungle”

– Product development and marketing initiative hand in hand

Quality demands

The milk from Norwegian goats is of to low quality for the production of several cheese products. Main problems:

– Flavour

– Free fatty acids

– Casein-composition (Alpha s1-casein)

Possible actions for quality improvements:

• Breeding– The breeding program must include action to improve milk quality for cheese

production

– Introducing/crossing with foreign breeds

• Feeding– Must be improved

• Milk keeping and milk treatment – Must be improved

TINE Snøfrisk, for eksportframstøt

Research

• Traditionally low activity compared to other livestock

• Increasing scientific activity especially on health

• Farmers in Northern Norway exert pressure for more research and knowledge about goats

• New scientific project apply: Quality Goat Milk for Cheese Production

– Collaboration between Tine, Norwegian Sheep and Goat Society (NSG), University of Life Sciences (UMB) and Norwegian Crop and Environmental Research Institute (Bioforsk)

– Main objective is to establish breeding and feeding strategies that ensure optimal and stable goat milk quality for consumer preferred cheese products

– Apply decision in December 07

Artic goat products

Future aspect:

• Give several goat products an arctic profile and thereby make them more preferred in the marked

Circumpolar goat?

• Is the potential for goat husbandry in the circumpolar region utilized?

• Is there a basis/interest for circumpolar collaboration on goat husbandry (knowledge, development, research)