Articles by Barbara Harfmann

Natural cheese — and the diverse types of shredded, chunks, slices, string/stick, crumbled, cubes, ricotta, and all other forms — generated $17.4 billion in dollar sales, a year-over-year (YoY) increase of 7%.

In 1959’s “The Sound of Music,” Governess Maria (Julie Andrews) teaches the Von Trapp children how to sing "Do-Re-Mi." From the first strains all the way to “T,” the music scale’s highest note, in “Tea, a drink with jam and bread,” the youngsters learn how to sing “a million different tunes by mixing up the notes.”

Growth of specific plant-based dairy alternatives like plant-based cheese, milks (soy, almond, etc.), ice cream, yogurt, and pea protein have been trending upwards. But is the subcategory niche or firmly “planted” in consumers’ minds?

Making cheese without any automation is a back-breaking, tiring job with a lot of stooping, stirring, manual washing of hoops and so on. When it comes to automation, “zero is not a hero,” for Master Cheesemaker Chris Renard and the team who handle production and packaging for Renard’s Cheese factory in Algoma, Wis.

When something is “grand,” it denotes something “magnificent, the largest/most important item of its kind.”

In the business world, leading with transparency means honoring one’s commitments even when one is forced to make difficult decisions. 

It placed third in the 2021 Dairy 100. It placed second in the 2022 Dairy 100. This year it is No. 1. Other companies saw major growth. Moving 33 spaces,  Valley Queen Cheese Factory Inc., Milbank., S.D., No. 87 in 2021 net revenue, moved to No. 54 with a 2022 net revenue of $600 million.

In the CBS series “Without a Trace” which aired from 2002–2009, a specially trained FBI Missing Persons Squad searches for missing people by applying advanced psychological profiling to reveal the victims’ lives.

While today’s dairy processing plants don’t include computer-generated holograms, elaborately designed automatic equipment and the ability to harness the power of water and wind into solar energy are just a few sustainability tactics construction engineers are utilizing to design and build the dairy plant of the future.

Clean-label cultures and enzymes are crucial to the production of fermented dairy products from sour cream to Parmesan cheese. In producing cheese, cultures acidify the milk and bring about flavor, while enzymes create the solid curd that is then formed into cheese.