Articles by Brian Berk

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will take center stage when The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) IFT FIRST Annual Event and Expo returns to Chicago’s McCormick Place from July 14 to 17.

Cincinnati-based Graeter’s Ice Cream has served the Midwest since 1870. Dairy Foods visited the plant in April to check out its 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, opened in 2010. 

Graeter’s Ice Cream has achieved something few companies have. It is synonymous with the city it has served for the past 154 years: Cincinnati. 

Jorge Izquierdo, vice president of market development for PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, joins Dairy Foods for Episode 40 of the “Let’s Talk Dairy” podcast.

Dairy Foods announced the return of its Plant of the Year award. Dairy Foods will be judging this year’s program based on specific outstanding achievements outlined in the entries.

Jerome, Idaho-based Idaho Milk Products is the 2024 Breakthrough Award for Dairy Innovation winner, for the formulation of its IdaPlus 1090, a protein used in ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages. 

It’s the age of cottage cheese. At first glance, it may sound like an exaggeration, but it’s not. TikTok has sent cottage cheese sales to the moon with sales of $1.33B. While private-label is still No. 1, brands like Daisy and Breakstone's are doing well. 

If I had not heard about a huge snowstorm a few weeks prior, I would have never guessed that Reno, Nev., had been blanketed by a foot of snow.

As we move further from the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be fair to expect a decline in private-label sales. 

Cheese continues its run as perhaps the strongest segment of the dairy industry. For the year ending Jan. 28, there were very few kinks in its armor.