Foster Farms Dairy products, Modesto, Calif., has changed its name to Crystal. The new name comes from Crystal Cream and Butter Co., a Sacramento producer that Foster Farms bought last year. The new name will go on fluid milk, butter, ice cream and other products that Foster Farms processes and makes at its plants on Kansas Avenue in Modesto and … 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
Scotland's Seriously Cheese to Sell in U.S.
Scotland’s biggest cheese maker, the Caledonian Cheese Company, has announced that they will begin selling their leading product, “Seriously” in the U.S. There are four varieties of the Seriously cheese, vintage, strong, mild red and mild white. They are marketed by Lactalis McLelland. The launch, expected in the coming week, follows interest drummed up at a major food exhibition in … Read More
Dairy Beef Quality Very Important
Want to increase the income of your cull animals? The Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Program can help you identify opportunities for improving the value of market cows and bulls from your operations through management, monitoring and marketing. Quality defects can rob dairy producers of almost $70 per head at market, according to the 1997 National Market Cow and Bull Beef … Read More
Wyo. Cheese Factory May Reopen
The Star Valley Cheese factory in Thayne, Wyo., closed since 2005, may be re-opening its doors again later this year. Idaho dairyman Gaylen Clayson is in the process of buying the facility. “We’re looking to buy the factory, and we are very interested in purchasing it and starting it up again,” Clayson said. “Our goal right now is just to … Read More
2008 Championship Dairy Product Contest
Calling all dairy plants in the U.S. and Canada – did you receive your entry forms for the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest? Be sure to enter your company’s products in this unique and competitive contest! Entries are due by August 8, 2008. This year’s contest promises to be even bigger and better since it will be expanding … Read More
Fonterra has New Corporate Headquarters
The New Zealand based dairy ingredients supplier company, Fonterra, recently opened their new North American corporate headquarters and laboratory in Chicago. The laboratory — an application and sensory technical and development centre — will be used to work more closely with North American customers developing products using NZ technology and ingredients. Fonterra’s US operations produce revenues of about $NZ2.67 ($NZ3.57) … Read More
DFA Plant Reaches Safety Milestone
The employees working at the Fort Morgan, Colo. Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (DFA) plant can now brag about the safe of their dairy plants – five years with no lost-time accidents. This is a great achievement, especially since the plant doubled its capacity during that period. Congratulations! Since 1998, the plant has manufactured sweet cream, condensed milk and nonfat … Read More
Idaho Dairy Goes Ruggedly Wireless in the Corral
The idea of gaining two extra hours in dairy farm management each day without working extra hours seems like a dream, right? What about cutting the time employees spend searching for animals… in half? Well, Scott Haag at Box Canyon Dairy in Wendell, Idaho says a set of MobileDemand rugged tablet PC’s makes those dairy farm dreams an everyday reality. … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cash block cheese market continued to weaken the second week of June and closed Friday at $2.04 per pound, down 12 cents on the week, and just 4 cents above a year ago. Barrel closed at $2.15, unchanged on the week, 10 cents above a year ago, and 11 cents above the blocks. Sixteen … Read More