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Now accepting entries for Dairy Foods’ Dairy Plant of the Year award

The deadline for entry is June 11, 2021.

April 1, 2021

Dairy Foods will be judging this year’s program based on specific outstanding achievements outlined in the entries.

Casper’s Ice Cream’s newest plant is a frozen novelty powerhouse

The state-of-the-art processing facility produces 350 million ice cream and frozen novelty products annually.

Kathie Canning

October 5, 2020

Richmond, Utah, is not exactly what one would call a metropolis, it boasts a population of fewer than 3,000 people. Despite its small status, however, the rural town has earned some decidedly big bragging rights.

Cast your vote for the 2020 Dairy Plant of the Year

Dairy Foods nominated 12 dairy processing plants that manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products. All of the plants were featured in Dairy Foods magazine and on dairyfoods.com between January 2019 and May 2020.

May 20, 2020

Dairy Foods nominated 12 dairy processing plants that manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products. All of the plants were featured in Dairy Foods magazine and on dairyfoods.com between January 2019 and May 2020.

Baker Cheese’s cheese plant was built to stretch

Baker Cheese’s plant expansion was designed to handle the continually increasing demand for the company’s string cheese

Anna Boisseau

March 4, 2020

Halfway through the family-owned Baker Cheese Inc. plant in St. Cloud, Wis., you'll come upon a kind of magical lazy river of cheese. Different sizes and varieties of the company's low-moisture, part-skim mozzarella string cheese float through a stream of brine.

High Road Craft Brands scales up its operation

High Road Craft Brands has experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade. But its ice cream plant remains committed to small-batch, craft operations

Kathie Canning

February 4, 2020

Tucked away in a Marietta, Ga., industrial park, surrounded by Georgia pines, is a 75,000-square-foot, nondescript off-white building that offers few external cues as to what’s inside. But once a visitor steps into that building, he or she will see an operation that is actually rather exceptional.

Graeter’s ice cream plant is different by design

Graeter’s ice cream plant blends a centuries-old process with modern technology to create an operation that’s like no other

Kathie Canning

October 4, 2019

First-time visitors to the ice cream manufacturing facility operated by Graeter's Ice Cream, attached to the company's Cincinnati headquarters on Regina Graeter Way, might be a little surprised when they step inside.

Turkey Hill’s Conestoga, Pa., plant transitions to renewable energy

Plant of the Year

Cast your vote for the 2019 Dairy Plant of the Year

Dairy Foods nominated 13 dairy processing plants that manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products. All of the plants have been featured on dairyfoods.com over the previous 17 months.

May 15, 2019

Which plant will be Dairy Foods' 2019 Dairy Plant of the Year? Will it be a large cheesemaking operation headquartered in Iowa or a family-run ice cream plant based in Ohio? Those are just two of the 13 dairy plants that are in the running for Dairy Foods' 2019 Dairy Plant of the Year.

Dairy processors partner with OSHA on plant safety

The initiative aims to raise the bar for both the regulator and the regulated

Danielle Quist

February 6, 2019

Dairy processing facilities are complex and sprawling sites featuring modern engineering and technology. At the heart of any dairy plant is a team of dedicated employees working hard to instill a safety culture that permeates every aspect of the business and ensures compliance with regulations from the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

It's a matter of teamwork for Borden Dairy's Dallas plant

Under Borden Dairy’s new ‘people-first’ approach, employees at the company’s Dallas milk plant understand their value — and are motivated to work together to create the highest-quality product.

Kathie Canning

January 8, 2019

There's a welcome change in the air for employees of Borden Dairy Co.'s Dallas milk plant. The company's new commitment to being a "people-first" organization means production is secondary to people, explained Chuck Lacy, plant manager.

AMPI - The powerhouse behind the dairy brands

Associated Milk Producers Inc. delivers award-winning dairy products to its foodservice, private label and co-pack customers

Kathie Canning

September 5, 2018

Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI) produces upwards of 640 million pounds of cheese, 140 million pounds of butter and 175 million pounds of powdered products each year. Despite those impressive figures, most consumers have never heard of the New Ulm, Minn. based dairy cooperative.