Dairy New Products
Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 17 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Michigan Milk Producers Association and United Dairymen of Arizona.
Processors and traders moved 3.24 billion lbs. of total milk solids into export channels last year, 7% more than 2010, and 49% more than 2009.
For the year, ERS expects the All-Milk price to average from $18.30 to $19.10/cwt.
It makes reporting completely web-based, which will speed the data collection process.
U.S. dairy exports are up 30% to $4.8 billion. Even December export values were up 23% over a year ago, and fourth-quarter sales were up 28%.
CWT has accepted 36 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Upstate-Niagara subsidiary O-AT-KA and United Dairymen of Arizona.
Lactalis will increase fresh mozzarella production at its Nampa site.
The bank’s five-year dairy outlook foresees high prices but not increased profits for all. Whey, not cheese, will be a star.
Bel Brands USA selects Brookings site to produce Mini Babybel cheese. State needs ‘15,000 more cows.’
Elementary students who consumed reformulated flavored milk, which contained less than or equal to 150 calories (8-oz. serving), were as likely as other students to drink most of their milk.
Consumers are going nuts for almond milk, as it became the fastest growing non-dairy milk alternative in 2011 at the expense of soy milk. According to the latest figures from Packaged Facts, sales of almond milk increased 79 percent in the US last year, while sales of soy milk -- though still the most popular non-dairy milk alternative -- fell 15 percent between 2008 and 2010, reported online trade publication FoodNavigator.com last week.
After reviewing several market fundamentals, CWT determined that it should begin assisting member cooperatives in making sales of butter overseas.
Mozzarella accounted for 58.1% of the state’s total cheese production.
The updated nutrition standards require that low-fat or fat-free milk remain a part of every school meal.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 18 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold and United Dairymen of Arizona.
Dan Souza wants to promote dairy’s nutritional qualities to keep industry viable.
U.S. farms pumped out 196.2 billion pounds of milk last year, a record, up from 192.8 in 2010. Cow numbers were also up 80,000 head (0.9%) over a year ago.
Over the next decade, the company says, the potential to grow dairy globally is more than double that of the next two food categories—bakery and chilled processed foods—combined.
Sales of Greek yogurt are booming in the United States, benefiting from a perception that the food is healthier than regular yogurt and other snacks.
But in a delicious ironic way, the demand for whey, the waste product of cheese manufacturing, is now growing by leaps and bounds.
Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 18 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold and United Dairymen of Arizona.
Dairy Council of California is helping turn back a tide that threatens to sweep flavored milk out of California school meal programs.
Glanbia Foods of Idaho sees increased sales of the cheese to Mexico, which buys 20% of U.S. cheese.
Open interest in dairy futures and options is up nearly 70%, with Class III options leading the way with more than 84,000 positions.
A Greek yogurt maker that’s erecting a new facility in Twin Falls is winning locals’ loyalty, though it’s yet to roll a single container of its dairy products off Idaho production lines.
These efforts helped lead to an increase of 4.2 billion pounds of dairy sold through the fiscal year that ended in July 2011 (compared to the same period of 2010).
Another milk food safety scare has emerged in China, this one due to aflatoxin M1 contamination.
Only colostrum from Fresno County raw-milk dairy remains under quarantine.
An affiliate of Dairy Solutionz (NZ) Ltd. in New Zealand has teamed with partners and investors to establish an initial 1,000-cow farm by 2013 on Hawaii island and help rebuild Hawaii’s local milk supply.