Processors
The expansion, which is expected to be completed in two years, will increase milk processing capacity by almost 30% and create an additional 50 jobs.
A ruling Thursday by France’s competition authority makes for rich reading, detailing a web of secret meetings, hand-written charts and phone exchanges over six years to fix prices on many of the yogurt-related goods on French supermarket shelves.
NAFTA provides unfettered access to Canadian market for U.S. high-protein milk ingredients—at least for now.
Although most operations are back to normal, some dairies are dealing with barn damage from roofs that collapsed under heavy snow loads.
A new advertising campaigning no longer ask consumers if they’ve ‘got milk?’, but instead tells them to “Milk Life.”
The global dairy manufacturer is using 15% less water to make its milk powder products.
With prices slashed to below their cost of production, UK dairy producers fear for their future.
Nevada dairy producers now have security, say the Perazzo brothers.
Farmers, state officials and dairy industry experts are gathering at Cornell University for the 2014 Yogurt and Dairy Summit.
Grassland Dairy Products Inc. has been ordered to pay a $300,000 penalty to Wisconsin for violating state water pollution laws.
A south-central Idaho milk processing company has agreed to pay a $170,000 fine for dumping wastewater with acidity levels high enough to damage Jerome’s wastewater treatment plant.
Land O’ Lakes is planning to close one east-central Wisconsin cheese plant and expand another.
An Ohio-based cheese processor is investing nearly $20 million in a plant its purchased in central Wisconsin.
French food manufacturer Danone says its profits slumped 15 percent last year as markets in Europe weakened, and warned that a return to growth won’t come before late in the year.
Peter Kleiman who owns and operates a 100-cow, 800-acre operation in Wilson, Mich., was elected as president of the FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative board of directors.
By Alfred Wanner Jr.It’s hard to overstate how important dairy cows are to Lancaster County’s economy. According to one authoritative estimate, dairyfarming here generates more than $400 million in revenue annually. Eighty-five percent of that stays in the community, changing hands 2½ times and generating $1.5 billion in total economic activity. Put another way, Lancaster’s economic fortunes rise and fall largely with those of its dairyfarmers.And right now dairyfarmers are worried that 2012 could be another 2009, when milk prices plummeted just as feed costs soared, wiping out profit margins virtually overnight. Many of us lost money on every gallon of milk we produced for a year. Others simply didn’t survive.
Dairy price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract payments are well above trigger levels
The emergency action is required to allow the U.S. to continue to export dairy ingredients and products into the European Union.
Both the National Milk and Holstein Dairy Plan would reduce price volatility.
Members of California’s Milk Producer Council upset with International Dairy Foods Association stance on dairy supply management
By reinventing the dairy department in grocery stores and other retail outlets and connecting consumers with dairy health and wellness, unit sales could increase by up to 3% and dairy department sales by as much $1 billion.
Economists from the Universities of Missouri and Wisconsin discuss milk productr classification issues within the Federal Milk Marketing Order system.
Former Virginia dairy farmers gives his opinion on recent USDA/Department of Justice hearing on dairy market consolidation.
USDA/Department of Justice hearing on consolidation of milk markets brings out contrasting opinions.
USDA and Department of Justice officials take testimony on dairy market consolidation.
Two dairy processors put animal welfare evaluation requirements into place in California.
The benchmark is called the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management, or FARM Animal Care Program developed by the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) with support from Dairy Management Inc.