UK dairy group Arla Foods has seen its profits more than double in the six months ending March 31, as improved sales and cost-cutting measures benefited the company.
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June milk production jumped 5.4% in the top 23 dairy states, according to USDA. The agency also revised May milk production up 0.2%, now saying May's output was up 4.6%. For the first half of 2005, total U.S. production jumped 2.6% over last year.
In June California jumped 154 million lbs.; Wisconsin was up 96 million lbs. California and Wisconsin were the biggest gainers in total output in June (combined, they contribute 34% of the nation's milk). California is milking 33,000 more cows than it did a year ago.
The National Milk Producers Federation says nearly three-fourths of the nation's milk supply is now contributing 5 cents per hundredweight to the Cooperatives Working Together program (CWT).
More than forty executives from the International Dairy Foods Association member companies took CAFTA approval and other issues to lawmakers on Capitol Hill during the Association's annual Washington Conference.
USDA closed the books June 30 on its FY 2005 Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) with almost no activity for the year. During the entire year, USDA never requested bids or awarded bonuses, so no dairy products were exported under the once-popular program. The reason is not much of a mystery. Demand for U.S. dairy products was strong throughout the year, keeping prices high, making government compensation for exporters unnecessary. International milk production was down, and the currency battering suffered by the dollar worked to U.S. producers' advantage, pumping up demand for U.S. non-fat dry milk. U.S. NFDM exports are up 155% since July 1, 2004, when the DEIP fiscal year began.
Mettler-Toledo Mettler-Toledo Safeline manufactures metal detection systems that meet 3A Dairy Sanitary Standards, USDA requirements and the Baking Industry endorsed BISSC sanitary standard. Also, Safeline designs its systems to meet
Consumers do not need another American single or pizza shred. For the most part, U.S. cheesemakers realize this, as the latest and greatest products to debut can be described as flavorful, convenient, organic or traditional.
BRISTOL, Wis.-As its company's desserts business has grown steadily in the last few years, management at Lakeview Farms, Bristol, Wis., realized that shrink wrapping costs were eating into profitability.
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