How is the dairy industry like Blockbuster, the video rental chain? What can dairy processors learn from Gillette? Will the food industry be up to the task of feeding billions more people in the years to come? What did Confucius have to say about intellectual property rights?
I heard the answers to these questions in January at the Dairy Forum, the annual confab of movers, shakers, politicos and fakers in the dairy industry. Host International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C., gathered deep thinkers to address Big Ideas in La Quinta, Calif. Owners and presidents of dairy processing firms had to have left inspired and action-oriented.