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This is the underlining theme for this year's International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association's™ (IDDBA) conference, June 5-7 in Minneapolis: easy preparation, Easy clean-up, easy packaging, easy cooking, and easy eating.

Know of a great dairy processor that ought to be recognized? Dairy Foods is seeking nominations for our 2005 Processor of the Year.

Degussa Food Ingredients has built a new blending unit in Shanghai to expand its activities in the Chinese region. In January the business line texturant systems of Degussa Food Ingredients

Main Street Ingredients Main Street Ingredients of La Crosse, Wis. has received outstanding audit results from the American Institute of Baking (AIB) and the National Food Processor Association (NFPA). Main

A dairy farmer recently summed up milk's reputation very nicely when he defended the use of cow graphics in connection with dairy products: I am proud of what I produce. After all, milk is the first food for most mammals. It is complete, well-balanced and fully nourishing.

There's further evidence of just how price-driven the U.S. fluid milk market is. Recent figures from Information Resources Inc., show unit sales are dropping at a lower pace now that retail prices are relaxing from last summer's spike. Quarterly sales of refrigerated milk were down just 1.1% by unit in the last quarter of 2004. They had been off by nearly 5% in the two quarters prior. These figures are for food, drug and mass merchandisers, but they do not capture convenience channel sales, Wal-Mart or foodservice.

Farmland Dairies LLC said last month that it has completed its emergence from bankruptcy.

Yogurt Immigration Greek dairy company, Fage Dairy Industry S.A., will invest $27 million to build a yogurt facility in Johnstown, N.Y. Fage has been making and marketing yogurt, and related

Two news stories in April brought with them a lesson about two different perspectives on the food business-the producer perspective and the consumer perspective.

WASHINGTON - The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) claims that the dairy industry has used "false and misleading" advertising in its multimillion-dollar "Healthy Weight With Dairy" campaign, and petitioned the Federal Trade Commission, asking it to put an immediate stop to a related series of advertisements.