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Awards

Quality Chekd honors Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream Co. with top award

May 24, 2012

Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream Co., Potomac Farms Dairy Enterprises took the top Quality Chekd honors in dairy excellence, plant performance and marketing, respectively, at the 2012 QCS Leadership Conference.

How our team approaches sustainability

A cross-functional sustainability team asks “why not?” as it examines processes and procedures.

May 15, 2012

At Perry’s Ice Cream, our family continues the tradition of making the same high-quality ice cream that founder H. Morton Perry crafted nearly a century ago in 1918.

Gifford's famous ice cream is made in Maine

The Maine ice cream processor focuses on flavors, distribution, customer service and employee relations. Those factors add up to a successful and growing business.

James Carper

May 15, 2012

The history of America is full of famous brothers. Comedy has its Marx brothers and baseball its Alou brothers. The Wright brothers reportedly had something to do with manned flight. In the world of ice cream, there are the Gifford brothers of Skowhegan, Maine.

Gifford's makes ice cream with family recipes, vintage equipment

Gifford’s makes the world’s best chocolate ice cream using old-fashioned recipes and equipment at its little plant in Skowhegan.

James Carper

May 15, 2012

The Gifford’s Ice Cream processing plant is tucked into a hillside on Hathaway Street in Skowhegan, Maine. This unassuming little band box of a building gives no hint that inside, production workers are creating super premium ice cream that is sold in company-owned and independently owned scoop shops and by retailers from Maine to Maryland.

Group seeks common sense in food names

May 14, 2012

Food producers and organizations from multiple countries have launched the Consortium for Common Food Names to stop efforts to restrict the use of generic food names, including such efforts by the European Commission.

Yogurt finds a place at restaurant tables

May 14, 2012

Foodservice operators and suppliers can appeal to women, especially older women, by offering yogurt-based sauces and other healthier substitutions for heavier sauce options. That’s the conclusion from Chicago-based Technomic Inc., a research firm specializing in foodservice trends.

Flavored yogurts, enhanced milk are the top dairy trends

May 14, 2012

As consumers pay more attention to their health, yogurt and enhanced milk are topping dairy product trends, according to “What’s in Store 2012,” the annual trends report compiled from more than 150 sources by the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association, Madison, Wis.

Dairy processors take their case to the U.S. Senate

May 14, 2012

In late April, dairy industry leaders called for the Senate Agriculture Committee to remove a new dairy program that is designed to control milk prices from the draft 2012 Farm Bill and instead focus on providing proven safety-net programs, such as revenue insurance, typically used for other commodities.

Dairy is in the diet of poor Americans

Those on food aid buy milk and yogurt, according to a new study by the USDA. Their food choices are not much different than any American’s.

James Carper

May 14, 2012

Poor households spend most of their food stamp money (nearly 75%) on vegetables, fruits, grain products, meat, and meat alternatives, according to a study released in April. Lower-cost red meats (7.8%) and milk and yogurt (7.6%) account for the largest shares of food consumed at home. That’s the finding of a report titled “Building a Healthy America: A Profile of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” and published by the Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Research and Analysis, in the United States Department of Agriculture.

USDA weekly prices

Cheese production remains high; milk levels off

May 11, 2012

Cheese production levels remain high but milk production in the Northeast and Mid- Atlantic regions has leveled off, according to today's Dairy Market News, published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.