Dairies are closing partly because of changing consumer tastes and trade tensions, but mainly because the industry is continuing a century-long consolidation.
U.S. dairy farmers that have seen an unprecedented number of bankruptcies in some parts of the country are looking closely at what sort of boost they may get from the Trump administration’s trade aid package.
The fight on whether alternatives can be labeled ‘milk’ rages on while dairy processors like Chobani produce coconut products and HP Hood makes Planet Oat.
The White House plans to present to Congress a text of the U.S.-Mexico trade agreement to revise portions of NAFTA. The U.S. & Canada are struggling to resolve their differences over dairy protections.
The war between established yogurt makers and upstarts intensified when Dannon Co. sued a former senior vice president for allegedly taking confidential information and trade secrets to his new job at Chobani LLC.
