The global market for whey and lactose ingredients will increase by 20 percent as the dairy industry focuses more on healthy and nutritional products, a new report forecasts. The report by 3A Business Consulting highlights the growing need for dairy groups to stay on top of the consumer demand for products with added-value nutritional benefits. The findings suggest that the … Read More
Yogurt at Subway
Dannon yogurt, owned by Groupe Danone, the world’s largest maker of dairy products, will now be included in Subway’s Fresh Fit sandwich menu. The addition of yogurt to the menu marks two wins for dairy at the restaurant – Subway also offers plastic single-serve low-fat milk. The introduction, which features Dannon yogurt as part of Subway’s Fresh Fit low-fat sandwich … Read More
FDA to Investigate Symbol System
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding a two-day hearing starting today to determine if the addition of symbols on the front of food packages can help convey nutrition information to consumers. The FDA will collect comments from food companies, trade groups, watchdog organizations, medical experts and their overseas counterparts on the topic. That’s an idea being considered by … Read More
Hilmar Cheese Plant in Texas Complete
The construction at the new Hilmar Cheese plant in Dalhart, Texas is finished. The company held a one-time only open house for the public today. This will be the only time the plant will be open to the public due to sanitation concerns, said Denise Skidmore, director of education and public relations. State and local dignitaries are expected as are … Read More
RFID Can Reduce Labor Costs
Steven Smith with DHI-Provo demonstrated how the Pocket DHI-Plus works with RFID through a video that showed a dairy producer walking alongside his animals and scanning them. As he did that, you could hear what he was hearing in his ear piece, whether to skip the animal, whether it needed to be preg-checked, or was due for injections, or whatever … Read More
Dairy Ingredients Market Growing
There’s apparently a growing market for dairy products as ingredients. Nutrition bars would be one example. You may not have noticed, but there’s change underway in the American food industry. Dairy ingredients are showing up in an amazing array of products that you might not traditionally think of when you think of dairy. There’s more on that, as Brian Baxter … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cheese prices continued to strengthen during the shortened Labor Day week and topped previous highs for the year. Block closed Friday at $2.14 per pound, up 6 1/2-cents on the week and 84 cents above that week a year ago when block was selling at the same $1.30 a pound that butter was. The barrel … Read More
Program Assists Those Switching to Organic
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the availability of $1 million to defray annual organic certification costs in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. This funding is particularly important to smaller producers so that they can meet the voluntary uniform … Read More
Honeybee Mystery Solved?
The mysterious death of American honeybees may have been solved. Scientists suspect that the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus may be to blame for the American Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Although the scientists behind the research cautioned that they haven’t yet cracked the case, their study provides enough curious coincidences to keep even the fictional detective (and beekeeper) Sherlock Holmes buzzing. … Read More
Jersey Farm Featured on Virtual Tour
World Dairy Expo is right around the corner, and Registered Jersey breeders, Huffard Dairy Farms of Crockett, Virginia will be one of nine North American dairy operations to be featured during the Virtual Farm Tour program. James S. Huffard III, who partners with his brother John in the business, will narrate a video tour of the 400-cow Registered Jersey™ dairy … Read More