Processors

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.
According to Milk Magazine, Mullins Cheese is picking up eight of the dairies that were recently displaced by Grassland Dairy Products.
19 Minnesota dairy farms affected by US-Canada trade dispute
Nonfat dry milk futures are down 12% amid trade war concerns.
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.
Greek yogurt passed General Mills’ top brand in popularity.
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.
CEO Scozzafava open to deals to diversify as milk volume drops.
Use of proceeds includes paying for 37 percent Shengmu stake.
The state Senate in Wisconsin is proposing a bill to aid a cheese distributor.
A Wisconsin cheese distributor has been approved for extended tax incentives.
The Michigan cheesemaker that turns heads with its larger-than-life statue of a milk cow at its shop entrance is making a big patriotic gesture. A storm toppled Williams Cheese Company’s sign and U.S. flag in 2012, so owner Mike H. Williams resolved to replace the 6-by-10-foot flag at the store.
Aurora Organic Dairy is looking at expanding into Missouri by purchasing a manufacturing plant.
Canada’s biggest milk processor has won control of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory Co., Australia’s oldest dairy producer.
HP Hood, one of the largest branded dairy operations in the United States, today announced that it has been named as Processor of the Year by Dairy Foods magazine.
5,000 fresh, single serve cups await shipment.
California Dairies Inc. enters a new export category with anhydrous milkfat production.
The average milk price paid to farmers rose to $19.60 per 100 pounds of milk last year, up from $17.98 in 2012 and a low of $12.16 in 2009,
New York’s milk production rose in 2013 for the fourth consecutive year.
Nationally sold yogurt and bottled milk help a Colorado family dairy double in size and it’s still growing.
A PepsiCo spokesman says the company and its German partner are ending production at a western New York yogurt plant opened with much fanfare and state money in 2013.
The Swiss dairy giant Emmi has purchased Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery, in Sebastopol, Calif.
The bearish report may not have much impact on markets tomorrow.
Where today sits a small pile of freshly turned western Kansas soil soon will be Meadowlark Dairy Nutrition, a Dairy Farmers of America milk processing plant.
DFA and eight local dairy farm families celebrated the one-year anniversary of Craigs Station Creamery, a unique milk plant located in Livingston County, New York.
A cheese plant in northeast Iowa has begun a $20 million expansion of the facility.
One of the world’s top 10 dairy processors calls for zero tolerance for any act of animal cruelty and an end to tail docking.
A Wisconsin cheesemaker is debuting a 20-year-old cheddar this week that’s short in supply and big on price.
An Arizona dairy embraces suburban sprawl by staying put and expanding into glass-bottled milk
Chinese imports of dairy products continue to fall below year-earlier levels, and U.S. product has been replaced by powders from New Zealand.
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