Your weekly Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export update. CWT has accepted ten export assistance bids for the sale of butter, cheese and anhydrous milkfat. Four of the bids were from Darigold of Seattle, WA, for butter exports in the following amounts to the following destinations: 500 metric tons (1,102,312 pounds) to Morocco; 125 metric tons (275,578 lbs.) to Japan; 50 … Read More
Land O'Lakes Sells Minn. Plant
A Land O’Lakes plant in Lake City, Minn. that manufactures spray dried cheese powders for use in the pet food and animal feeding industries has been sold to International Ingredient Corp. Land O’Lakes will continue to provide the cheese raw materials utilized in the plant. Details of the acquisition cost were not provided. The plant will continue to produce the … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cheese price hemorrhaging continued early in the week of August 4 but a tourniquet was finally applied as the buyers stepped up to the plate. The blocks fell to $1.7050 on Thursday but rallied Friday, regaining 6 1/4-cents, and closed at $1.7675 per pound, down 6 3/4-cents on the week, and 17 1/4 below a … Read More
Australia Remains Committed to Research
The recent closure of the Australian Kyabram Irrigated Research Institute has promoted the Victorian government to assured Dairy Australia that it will maintain its commitment to dairy research and development. Dairy Australia managing director, Mike Ginnivan, said the challenges facing dairy meant that it was important that all R,D&E be directed in the most effective way, and be subject to … Read More
Monsanto Looks to Sell Posilac
Monsanto announced today that it is pursuing a divestiture of its dairy product, POSILAC® bovine somatotropin (commonly known as rBST). Additional details have not been disclosed at this time. “While POSILAC is a strong product for the business, we believe repositioning the business with a strategic owner will allow Monsanto to focus on the growth of its core seeds and … Read More
Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association Welcomes New Staff
The Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association welcomes four new staffers to their dairy marketing and promotion program. Congratulations to each of them! As school marketing managers, Linda Amraen and Tom Celi work with schools to implement the New Look of School Milk, a program that features milk in 8-ounce plastic bottles, and institute recycling and dairy vending programs. They are resources for … Read More
Family Owned Cheese Plant Expands
Los Altos Food Products, owned by Raul Andrade and his family, is expanding from 36,000-square-foot factory to a new 100,000-square-foot facility a few blocks away. Demand for the company’s cheese is growing, particularly for their Cotija-style cheese, one of Mexico’s most famous flavors. In rural Mexico, there is a tiny town at the base of the Southern Sierra Madres called … Read More
Yearwood Wears Milk Mustache
Country music star, Trisha Yearwood is the latest celeb to wear the popular got milk? mustache. The ad premiered on August 5 in several magazines. A graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, Yearwood has performed at the Academy Awards, the Olympics and the Library of Congress. She sang with Luciano Pavarotti, one of world’s most famous vocal performers, in the … Read More
Alphabet Forages
Have trouble sorting out PENDF, NDF and PEF? Pioneer Hi-Bred nutritional sciences veterinarian, Bill Seglar, explains these acronyms and their value to producers. “This information offers producers the ability to add up physically effective fiber coming from all different types of forages that are being brought into the ration to see if it meets the requirements of the total ration,” … Read More
Two Join DBA
The Dairy Business Association (DBA) has two new staff members – Sara A. Kruse and Jane Aubry. Congratulations to both on their new positions! Prior to joining DBA, Kruse worked for Lextron Animal Health as a marketing manager and most recently as a dairy sales representative. She earned a degree in public relations from Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, … Read More