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Despite pleas from nearly every segment of the dairy industry-some simply cautionary, but others marked by dismay and appall-FDA has given the green light to allowing cloned milk and meat into the food chain.

What trend will most greatly impact your business in 2008? Why, and how so?

If the headline is vaguely reminiscent of an early 1960s movie filled with comic scenes of cocktail parties, maybe it should be. 

From our new Dairy Field Reports section: At 80, Schoep’s Ice Cream transcendsstatus as a regional favorite with prolific co-packing and distributionactivities. Includes Schoep’s Plant Close-up.

With flavored milk being reformulated, there is plenty of opportunity for growth in the special channels.

Continued high prices have halted the baby steps milk was taking in terms of overall volume growth, but the impact has not been drastic. Tea and bottled water are among the beverage categories that continue to do very well.  Meanwhile, in the arena of school milk and vending, the industry has reworked flavored milk to meet nutrition guidelines.

As integration continues, latest acquisition makes HP Hood a truly national company.

Milk sales and brands  

Packaged lassi; B&J Lighten Up; focus on cheese

In this new section we look at the amazing new Atlas of Artisan American Cheese by Jeffery Roberts, and this month we rollout our own Artisan Profile with a visit to Willow Hill Farm, Milton, Vt.