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Equipment Showcase

Equipment suppliers highlight the latest advances in fillers and cappers

April 30, 2025

New equipment from Filler Specialties, FILTEC, and Unifiller.

Prairie Farms Dairy plants are vital to feeding American families

Dairy coop manufactures thousands of cultured dairy products at 47 plants in 18 states.

Barbara Harfmann

April 25, 2024

From a small 5,000-square-foot plant in Springfield, Ill., solely focused on making ice cream mixes, to a large, 126,000-square-foot plant in Dubuque, Iowa, that processes nearly 40 million pounds of fluid milk a month, Prairie Farms Dairy boasts a wide range of manufacturing operations.

Research on milk’s full nutritional potential

Bioactive peptides and milk proteins promote immunity, bolster cognition.

Emil Nashed

June 28, 2023

Milk has a proven legacy of providing health and wellness benefits through its 13 essential nutrients that solidifies its place in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and has earned endorsements from leading health organizations.

Once you've met them, you'll never forget them

Can these ‘magnificent 7’ save milk? DMI thinks they have a good chance

Past advertising efforts were essentially generic and acted as disincentives to dairies to invest in promoting their own brands. “Brands understand they need to step up,” Gallagher said.

October 29, 2014

DMI, Rosemont, Ill., which is funded by dairy farmers through the checkoff program, said it is assisting in product development, consumer insights, nutritional consulting, technical and formulation support and introductions to perspective marketplace partners.

Plant of the Year

Smith Brothers Farms is voted the Plant of the Year

The fluid milk facility in Kent, Wash., was one of 12 nominated dairy processing plants.

July 9, 2014

Smith Brothers Farms, a fluid milk processor, has been selected to receive the Plant of the Year award from Dairy Foods. Its plant was one of 12 dairy processing plants throughout the United States nominated by Dairy Foods.

USDA weekly prices

Retailers push organic dairy this week, while cheese production slows, reports the USDA's Dairy Market News

July 27, 2012

Organic dairy advertising volume set a number of records; ice cream and cream cheese manufacturing account for the strongest demand on national cream supplies; and cheese production was reported slower as reduced volumes of milk were available for manufacturing, according to the USDA's Dairy Market News.