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Cheese yield, or the product obtained from milk, is crucial for optimizing plant operations. Even minor yield differences significantly affect revenue. With the increased use of concentrated milk, monitoring efficiency has become even more essential, according to Dr. John Lucey.

Dairy Foods loves touring dairy plants. In the case of Neenah, Wis.-based Galloway Company, we go “Inside the Plant” to learn more about their $70 million, 41,000-square-foot expansion and the star of the show, its new fully automated, multi-effect evaporator.  

Any North American processing facility producing dairy-based foods and/or beverages is eligible to enter.

Manufacturing 42 varieties of premium cheese in the heart of America’s Dairyland not only takes a ton of high-quality raw milk — 1.8 million pounds a day, or 534 million pounds annually, to be exact, in the case of Marshfield, Wis.-based Nasonville Dairy. 

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.

CitraPac introduces Triple Berry as the newest variety of Nature’s Premium Fruit Pearls. One of the top flavor profiles in frozen fruit, Triple Berry will be available in the frozen fruit sections of major retailers in June. 

The MDVA division bought a location previously owned by HP Hood.

Since expanding operations and moving from New Gloucester, Maine, 120 miles Northeast to Bangor, home of world-famous horror author Stephen King, Pineland Farms Dairy Co.’s growth and reputation has been anything but scary.

Considering that Wooster, Ohio-based Green Field Farms is run by a cooperative of Amish and Mennonite farmers who still use traditional on-farm methods, you might think that the company’s milk processing plant would also harken back to older times.