Wendy’s, the nation’s third-largest quick-serve restaurant chain, has recently begun to promote three new dairy-friendly items on its popular Kids’ Meal menu at nearly 6,000 stores across the country.
Gehl's New Loader Will Move Manure – a LOT of Manure
Although Gehl has technically exited the agriculture market, a number of their handling implements have natural ties to our business. In that vein, they’ve introduced the world’s most powerful skid loader.
FDA Thinks Restaurants Should Sell More Milk
Sounds like a fine idea to me. I sat at an Ohio State Ag Alumni awards banquet last year with an alum from the dairy biz. I was thrilled, being a multi-gallon per week milk drinker, when he ordered a pitcher of the milk for the whole table. His comment was that he was always amazed when he took his dairy clients to dinner that they rarely ordered milk, so he ordered it for them. Sounds like a good policy to me, like fueling your farm equipment with soy biodiesel or driving a flex-fuel car.
Dairy Processing Instruments On Dispaly
If you think processing dairy products is as simple as pumping milk into a container then think again. Today’s processing facilities are miracles of technology. One of the companies that’s supplying their need is Advanced Instruments. They make things like this cryoscope. In case you don’t know what it does:
Quarterly Import Watch Report Out
Just in case you didn’t know this, the National Milk Producers Federation has a website with quarterly reports (Import Watch) that accomplish the following:
CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s last week’s announcements from Cooperatives Working Together:
House Agriculture Subcomittee Hosts Forum on Dairy Biz
Last week, the Subcommittee on Deparment Operations, Oversight, Dairy, Nutrition, and Forestry met at Winona, Minnesota to discuss the Upper Midwest Dairy industry.
NMPF And Others Send White House A Message
The National Milk Producers Federation has joined a number of farm groups in sending a message to the White House on WTO talks. Will these talks ever get anywhere? Who knows. But at least we know they’re “talking.”
Mischa's Got Milk
The latest addition to the MilkPep “Got Milk” campaign is actress Mischa Barton. She credits the nutrients in milk for helping keep her healthy and strong during the hectic pace of filming. The ad copy reads: “Take 9. On the set they are screaming ‘action’ all day. And thanks to the 9 essential nutrients in milk, I’ve always got what it takes to nail it.” The ad debuts in Teen People.
MaggieMoo's Fresh Star Contest
Anything that has an iPod involved catches my eye. MaggieMoo’s Fresh Star contest does. Our company is podcasting and hopes to begin doing so here on World Dairy Diary soon. So enter and I hope you win.