This is my last posting for a magazine that I can still call Dairy Field. In January, we emerge as Dairy Field Reports, a monthly section inside Dairy Foods, the result of our acquisition by BNP Media.
The Pennsylvania agriculture secretary has seen fit to overrule the
federal government by forbidding what he has deemed "false and
misleading" milk labeling -- namely, milk marketed as coming from cows
not treated with synthetic bovine growth hormones.
We've all heard about how some dairy farms generate their own power by
extracting methane from cow manure. Now, researchers are studying ways
to generate energy from a bit farther down the dairy chain.
MADISON, WIS. -- I just got back from the World Dairy Expo Championship
Dairy Product Contest auction. It was a first for me on two counts:
first time attending the Expo (it's largely a producer affair, and
we're a manufacturing magazine), and first time attending an auction of
any kind, at least one with a real auctioneer, like the kind you see in
the movies.
After a judge tossed out the animal rights fringe's lawsuit against the
dairy industry demanding lactose intolerance warning labels on milk, I
knew it wouldn't be long before they came up with something new that
was just as stupid, and -- joy of joys -- they haven't let me down.
I got an interesting phone call the other day. It was from a consultant
working for an overseas dairy processor that was interested in U.S.
dairy market trends that might be headed their way.
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