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Dairy processor news from Land O’Lakes, DairyAmerica

June 7, 2017

DairyAmerica, Fresno, Calif., appointed Dan Block as chief executive officer. He joined DairyAmerica in 2011, and most recently served as the organization’s chief commercial officer in charge of global sales strategy.

Consumer trends affect processing equipment choices

June 5, 2017

Your R&D lab might be developing the foods consumers want, but does your plant have the right processing and packaging equipment?

Churn, baby, churn

The butter truth: churns are active in the Midwest, quiet in the Northeast and West

In the Northeast, some manufacturers point out reductions in churning.

June 3, 2017

Cream supplies are plentiful, keeping butter churns active around the United States, reports the USDA's Dairy Market News. Producers in the center of the country are planning to pack away butter for the late summer and early fall.

Chobani's way means making better food for more people

The Greek yogurt company stays true to its values: making quality and accessible food, and being committed to its people and the community.

Sarah M. Kennedy

June 2, 2017

Chobani’s mission has been clear from the start: make better food for more people. It emphasizes that just as much today as when the company was founded by chairman and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya in 2007.

Private label and foodservice accounts need dairy processors

James Carper

June 2, 2017

Dairy processors can see their future in this one statistic: 97% of millennials are likely to buy store brands. Someone has to manufacture those brands. It might as well be your company. When Dairy Foods surveyed its readers in 2016, it found that 40% do provide contract manufacturing services.

Inside Litehouse plant: How blue cheese gets dressed in Idaho

Plant of the Year

Vote for the dairy plant of the year

Dairy Foods has nominated 14 dairy processing plants which manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products. All have been featured on dairyfoods.com over the previous 18 months.

June 1, 2017

Voting has begun to select the Dairy Foods 2017 Dairy Plant of the Year. The 14 U.S. dairy processing companies manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products.

World Milk Day

Celebrate World Milk Day on June 1

Raise a glass of milk to celebrate World Milk Day

May 31, 2017

In 2001, the UN declared June 1 each year to be World Milk Day recognizing the importance of milk in making the world a healthier place.

Inside the yogurt plant: Chobani looms large in Magic Valley

The Greek yogurt company has created the largest yogurt making facility in the world in Twin Falls, Idaho. Its presence there has created other food-related jobs and has left a positive mark on its community.

Sarah M. Kennedy

May 31, 2017

In 2016, to accommodate its growth, Norwich, N.Y.-based Chobani invested $100 million to complete a 300,000-square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility in Twin Falls, Idaho. Now totally 1,000,000 square feet, the plant (which opened in 2013) is said to be the largest yogurt manufacturing facility in the world.

Dairy Processors

Wisconsin honors Crave Brothers; new distribution for Straus Family Creamery

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, Waterloo, Wis., is the Wisconsin Family Business of the Year.

May 26, 2017

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese is the Wisconsin Family Business of the Year. And two California organic dairy processors take on a new distribution partner.