Friendship Dairies LLC has announced plans to expand its manufacturing operation, adding 40 jobs to its payroll of 218 in the town of Friendship, N.Y. in Allegany County. The company, which produces “All Natural” cultured and pasteurized dairy products, says it will increase its plant size by 27,000 square feet, renovate another 7,000 square feet and invest more than $3 … Read More
Pa. DART Meetings Planned for October
The Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence announces their fall Dairy Advocacy and Resource Team “DART” meetings planned for October. These meetings will provide agri-business professionals a unique opportunity to visit dairy/food manufacturing facilities across Pennsylvania at businesses that are staking their future on the success of our dairy industry. Each plant is opening their doors to give facility tours, share … Read More
Progressive Dairyman Proud to Dairy
Progressive Dairyman has announced their new Proud to Dairy logo that all dairymen are welcome to proudly display on their dairy. Additionally, the magazine is seeking video contributions to feature on the new website that explain why you are Proud to Dairy. If dairying is your life, your heritage or in your future, join with your Proud to Dairy peers. … Read More
Davisco Foods Receives Governor's International Honor
Davisco Foods International, Inc. has won the Governor’s International Trade Award. This award honors Minnesota companies, organizations and individuals who have excelled in the international marketplace. The award highlights the crucial role exporting plays in Minnesota’s economy and recognizes the recipient’s efforts to expand and promote the state’s exports. For sixty-five years, Davisco, a privately held, three generation family owned … Read More
Agri-Mark to Assist Amish Dairy Producers
The Heritage Cheese House, started in 1994 under Amish ownership as a place for the local community to sell its milk, closed its doors this week, causing more than 65 Amish dairy farmers to loose their market for milk. Now Agri-Mark cooperative which also owns Cabot and McCadam Cheese, is helping to build temporary storage and cooling stations, called community … Read More
Dannon Joins Children's Initiative
Dannon has become the 15th major food and beverage company to join the Council of Better Business Bureau’s Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. The Initiative was launched in November 2006 by the Council of Better Business Bureaus to provide companies that advertise foods and beverages to children with a transparent and accountable advertising self-regulation mechanism. The Initiative is aimed … Read More
Dairy Installs WasteSolver System
TyraTech Inc., the pioneer of safer, effective natural pesticide products and automated manure management systems, announces that the Rancho Teresita Dairy has signed an agreement to purchase and install the TyraTech WasteSolver™. This will be one of the first systems to be installed in California. With ever-tightening environmental regulations, it is increasingly difficult for dairy producers to manage their cows’ … Read More
LOL to Take Over Supply Agreement
Green Meadows Foods, LLC and the Dairy Foods-Industrial Division of Land O’Lakes, Inc. have entered into a long-term milk supply agreement. “We are excited about our agreement with Land O’Lakes,” said Sjerp Ysselstein, president of Green Meadows Foods. “This milk will supply our cheese manufacturing capacity set to come online in early November.” “This agreement affords our dairy cooperative another … Read More
Dean to Close N.C. Plant
Dean Foods will be closing its Pet Dairy plant in Hickory, N.C. on November 21. The plant produces ice cream and employs 120 people. A Dean Foods spokesman said the plant is being closed in an effort to optimize the company’s supply chain in an increasingly competitive environment. Production will shift to other Dean Foods plants. Dean Foods said affected … Read More
Wis. Milk Production Up
According to a study released recently called the Wisconsin Cheese Plant Capacity and Future Milk Production report, increases in the state’s milk production may exceed the state’s ability to process it by 2012. For years, milk production has lagged behind the statewide capacity of dairy processing plants, creating a deficit that was fulfilled by trucking in various forms of milk … Read More