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Considering that Wooster, Ohio-based Green Field Farms is run by a cooperative of Amish and Mennonite farmers who still use traditional on-farm methods, you might think that the company’s milk processing plant would also harken back to older times. 

The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), Tracy, Calif., announced the launch of a consumer promotion focused on starting off 2022 with health and wellness in mind.

The Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA), Novi, Mich., said it will acquire Superior Dairy in Canton, Ohio, a subsidiary of LEL Operating Co.

Starting this December, 17 regional dairy brands owned by Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) will help fill a real need at food pantries across the country with the donation of more than 2 million shelf-stable “The Giving Cow” milk products.

After years of riding in the slow lane, the retail milk category got a pandemic-related jump last year. But since COVID-19-related panic buying subsided and some normalcy returned in 2021, milk sales felt the gridlock once again. 

The third edition of the CMAB’s dairy product innovation competition partnership with New York-based innovation consultancy VentureFuel Inc. will bring 12 entrepreneurs together to pitch their functional dairy products for a chance at a slot in the final competition. 

Phoenix-based Shamrock Farms says it is jump-starting the holiday season by introducing eggnog and whipping creams inspired by fall and holiday flavors. 

The dairy checkoff, managed by Rosemont, Ill.-based Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), launched a new wave of the Undeniably Dairy campaign to create deeper connections between Gen Z and dairy and give them new reasons to choose it over other products.

California Dairies Inc. (CDI), Visalia, Calif., said Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture Karen Ross and other state and local officials joined the cooperative on Sept. 29 for a groundbreaking ceremony in Kern County, Calif., at the future site of CDI’s new ultra-high temperature and extended shelf-life milk processing facility.