Dairy Business News
Connie Tipton challenged industry leaders to focus on policies that will promote growth and profitability.
A Columbia County dairy is using an outside $1.65 million investment to purchase land, double its size and build a processing plant. Milk Thistle Farm, a Ghent-based milk producer and bottler that’s popular in New York City, will move its herd and operations to a 250-acre farm off Allendale Road in Stuyvesant, near Kinderhook.
DFA and DMS allege the settlement will allow plaintiffs’ attorneys to pick “winners and losers” among dairy farmers
With Rhea County schools closed Tuesday, teacher Kathy Shaver took advantage of her day off to try to use her double coupons to fill her weekly grocery list.The avid coupon-clipper from Evensville, Tenn., cut the $58 list price of her food items to only $28 with trips to both the Publix and Bi-Lo supermarkets in Hixson. But many items on her grocery list weren’t available and may not be available until weather conditions improve.
FDA will begin on-farm drug testing of milk on 900 dairy farms that previously had drug residues found in meat.
NMPF and USDEC hope the move will lead to the end of Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods, including many cheeses.
French dairy group Sodiaal has reached an agreement to acquire struggling domestic rival Entremont Alliance. The move creates a dairy giant with over 7,000 employees and sufficient scale to participate in the ongoing consolidation in the European dairy sector.
Rod and Kaysi Hubsmith were awarded the cheese manufacturer’s highest honor and two all-expense-paid tickets to Ireland.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted seven requests for export assistance to sell a total of 1.702 million pounds of cheese to customers in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled. Sixteen of the 18 recommendations that passed garnered at least two-thirds “yes” votes.
Strong export demand will mitigate downward dairy price pressure. But rising feed costs will still deteriorate margins in the first quarter of 2011.
One vote margins pass the national supply management program and mandating California’s higher milk solids in fluid milk.
$500,000 grant from Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association will renovate university’s dairy production facility.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 17 requests for export assistance to sell Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to the Middle East and Asia.
The new company will be part of the firms’ existing Dairy Partners of America (DPA) joint venture and is to be called DPA Chile.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted eight requests for export assistance to sell Cheddar cheese to customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
A total of 2,629 cheeses competed this year, coming from more than 29 countries. 29 U.S. companies received 79 medals.
Dairy interests prepare for new congressional line-up.
Bravo Farms widens its recall to all cheeses.
A panel of global dairy insiders says that the first half of 2011 could be troublesome for producers, but things will improve markedly by the second half—maybe.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Foremost Farms, Darigold, and Dairy Farmers of America to sell 1.8 million pounds of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese.
In its latest Global Dairy Outlook, the international bank says developments over the last 12 months have changed its view on the likely role of these two giants in the world marketplace.
LAS CRUCES ? The New Mexico Department of Health’s Scientific Laboratory Division has confirmed the outbreak strain of E. coli in an intact sample of Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda Cheese from Costco.
CWT accepted 10 requests for export assistance 2.4 million pounds of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in the Middle East and Asia.
The National Milk Producers Federation has released a new manual aimed at minimizing unwanted pharmaceuticals in the food supply.
Cooperatives Working Together assists Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold in selling cheese to the Middle East, Asia, and Central America.
All were made ill by raw milk from a renegade Minnesota dairy farm, which is under investigation for selling contaminated milk.
Highlights from the Dairy Checkoff’s 2010 Annual Meeting
Over the next three years, Domino’s outlets in Australia and New Zealand will be serving 12 million pounds of California mozzarella cheese to their customers.