Latest News From Processors

It took just a spoonful of a simple tub of yogurt with passion fruit puree on a trip home to her native Australia to nudge Koel Thomae into a new career.

A milk processing plant in Iowa has undergone a renovation and expansion that will double its current production of cheese.

New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra said on Thursday it expected lower milk collection for the 2017/18 season, hurt by dry weather sweeping the country.

World’s most popular sports event gets fourth Chinese sponsor.

More conventional exports are strong too.

France has ordered banned the sale and ordered a recall of several baby formula milk and baby food products made by French dairy giant Lactalis after the discovery of salmonella bacteria.

Meet Tom Jenny, a Wisconsin cheesemaker who spent 51 years honing his skills.

A lawsuit has been settled by New Zealand-based a2 Milk Company Ltd with a competing dairy company in Australia over allegations of misleading advertising and packaging.

In the latest dairy products report from USDA both cheese and butter saw month-over-month and year-over-year gains in production.

Groupe Lactalis SA has agreed to acquire Brazilian dairy company Itambé Alimentos SA.

Dairy Forum 2018 will look ahead to both near- and long-term outlooks for the dairy industry.

Fonterra says decision will not impact farmgate milk prices.

New Zealand’s Fonterra requested an immediate temporary trading halt on Friday to have time to consider the outcome of its arbitration with Danone SA regarding its 2013 whey protein concentrate precautionary recall.

Two truckloads of Northeast Area milk will supply more than 10,000 pounds of cheese for the central Pennsylvania food bank.

After two undercover videos in Florida were released, the local cooperative is implementing changes to halt animal abuse.

Dairy group Fonterra says October milk output up 3 percent year-over-year.

China Huishan Dairy Holdings Co Ltd, struggling under billions of dollars worth of debt, is preparing for provisional liquidation.

A new Foremost Farms USA processing plant should help Michigan almost meet its processing capacity of 33 million lb per day. Currently, Michigan is only able to process 26 million lb. of milk.

Western Kansas finally has dairy processing after nearly three decades of dairy development in the region thanks to Dairy Farmers of America’s (DFA) new powder plant.

Building plants to process more milk solves nothing if the resulting dairy products don’t have market. And therein lies the rub.

Saputo Inc, one of Canada’s largest dairy producers, aims to return Australia’s Murray Goulburn Co-operative to profit by aggressively pursuing more of the country’s milk supply.

The Hemme family has been rooted in dairy farming for the past 22 years. When David Hemme’s four sons approached him about coming back to the farm and being a part of the business, they started Hemme Brothers Creamery.

New Zealand’s NZX said on Monday it will introduce a new options contract for skim milk powder in December to expand investors’ options to cope with volatile prices in dairy, the country’s largest goods export.

Canada’s biggest cheesemaker Saputo Inc has agreed to pay up to $490 million for debt-ridden Murray Goulburn Co-operative, becoming Australia’s top milk producer with its second major acquisition in the country.

By 2019, the U.S.’s largest organic milk cooperative plans to be source all of its electricity from renewable sources.

The state of Florida is paying approximately $437,000 to cover the legal fees of attorneys who represented a dairy in a lawsuit against Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.

Thomas Davis, a former chairman of dairy processing company Dean Foods Co, was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison after pleading guilty to passing insider information to sports gambler William Walters.

Danone’s sales of baby milk formula in China rose strongly in the third quarter, beating forecasts and sending the French food company’s shares to a record high.

Whether it’s a lack of labor or the cost of doing business, some dairies are searching for a new home.

The Great Falls Tribune reports another large multi-specie processing plant could be built on the outskirts of Great Falls, Mont.

New Zealand dairy company A2 Milk said on Thursday it had successfully registered its infant formula, processed by partner firm Synlait, in China.

In April, Grassland Dairy Products, located in Greenwood, Wisc., notified its producers they had until the end of the month to find a new processor. 

Upstate NY dairy farmer co-op to buy Kraft Heinz plant

Yoplait's sales are free falling, and its parent company is about to face even more competition in the dairy case.

A commercial distributed by Arla Foods as part of a $30 million marketing campaign is now at the heart of a lawsuit by Eli Lilly and its subsidiary Elanco.

Federal authorities are investigating a former Cabot cheese employee suspected of stealing machine parts from the Vermont-based company and using them in his side business selling maple syrup production equipment.

Wisconsin agriculture officials say most Wisconsin farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute have new buyers.

Yili also cancels plan to raise 9 billion yuan in placement.

Even with record U.S. demand, organic dairies look for buyers.

A handful of Minnesota dairy farms that faced losing their buyer because of a trade dispute with Canada will keep the buyer after all.

Right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he's not backing down in response to a defamation lawsuit filed by Greek yogurt giant Chobani.

A handful of Wisconsin dairy farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute were weighing offers from new buyers on Tuesday, but others were running out of time before an expiring contract risked putting them out of business.

Yogurt maker’s sales growth the weakest in at least a decade.

Nonfat dry milk futures are down 12% amid trade war concerns.

19 Minnesota dairy farms affected by US-Canada trade dispute

According to Milk Magazine, Mullins Cheese is picking up eight of the dairies that were recently displaced by Grassland Dairy Products. 

An Idaho conservation group has filed a complaint to several state agencies asking officials to inspect a wastewater pit used by a Nampa cheese-making plant.

Two directors depart, leaving board below amount needed to act.  

A small, all-natural dairy isn't being deceptive when it calls it's skim milk "skim milk," a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a victory for the creamery that's fighting the state's demand to label the product "imitation" because vitamins aren't added to it.