date:Dec 10, 2013
Food co-operative Land O'Lakes Inc will become the second U.S. firm to join the world's dairy trading platform, adding a potentially big exporter of skim milk powder to the internationally traded dairy market.
Interest by firms in joining GlobalDairy Trade, which was set up in 2008 by New Zealand's Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, has picked up over the last year as demand for milk products soar in emerging economies like China.
Land O'Lakes, the No. 5 U.S. dairy firm by revenues,