Dairy Foods and the American Dairy Products Institute are sponsoring the award to recognize ADPI members for their new products, manufacturing processes, R&D efforts and marketing programs.

The Idaho Milk Processors Association Conference, Aug. 11 to 12, includes a panel discussion among dairy experts dubbed "The Future of Food" that addresses balancing consumer trends and food security.

The dairy industry must take a close look at the consumption habits and behaviors of millennials. Then, it must develop dairy products that keep the industry and its products relevant.

Listen up dairy industry: Unless we embrace a fundamental strategic change, the only white milk that will be consumed in the United States will be out of a baby bottle or a Starbucks cup. 

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.

Three dairy processors and three dairy industry suppliers received innovation awards at the International Dairy Show.

Online voting has begun for the third Dairy Innovations Awards program by the International Dairy Foods Association.

Yoplait Berry Pomegranate Yogurt & Juice and Dill Pickle Sour Cream Dip were named the most innovative milk or cultured products at IDFA’s Innovative Milk and Cultured Dairy Products Contest.

Packages of frozen yogurt that reveal images when warmed by the human hand and rotogravure printing that results in mouth-watering images are two examples of award-winning flexible packages. See what other packages for dairy foods were honored by the Flexible Packaging Association.
 

Neil Hoff, a Texas dairy producer and UDIA Chairman, explained how the checkoff is working to turn around the decades-long decline in fluid milk sales. “At the direction of producer leaders, checkoff staff has met with nearly 200 executives from 50 companies that include fluid milk processors, dairy cooperatives, retailers and suppliers to identify the underlying factors to stabilize and grow fluid milk sales,” Hoff said. “Innovation is critical to fluid milk’s survival.”