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It all depends on the product, but expect stronger prices next year. NDM prices might rise to $1.25/pound in late 2016. Favorable skim pricing won’t last all year, while butter prices will be volatile in the first quarter 2016. As for cheese, inventories and imports hold down prices.

Research by the National Dairy Council has made milkfat more acceptable in the eyes of consumers and health professionals. This could have positive ramifications on full-fat dairy products.

Milk intakes have slowed for most cheese plants. Retail and food service demand remains active to strong, which is drawing on manufacturer inventories at expected rates, reports Dairy Market News.

New flavored milk brand YUP! and digital media company Onion Inc. are calling on young adults to do nothing as part of their newly launched campaign.

Mayfield Dairy Farms manufactures milk for McDonald’s, ice cream for Baskin-Robbins and buttermilk for Cracker Barrel restaurants. The Tennessee-based dairy has expanded to Florida and Louisiana.

Dairy Foods has selected Chicago-based fairlife LLC as the 2015 Processor of the Year. fairlife created a proprietary ultra-filtration process that boosts the natural protein and calcium found in milk and reduces its natural sugars.

U.S. dairy processor HP Hood buys La Terra Fina, a maker of refrigerated dips and quiches.

Dean Foods Co. named Ralph Scozzafava to executive vice president and chief operating officer effective Oct. 1.

Aurora Organic Dairy has reduced its shuttling of products to and from cold storage by 90% by opening a new energy-efficient plant in Platteville, Colo.