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Outlook Report

Honoring Women Leaders Shaping the Dairy Industry – Part 2

Overcoming pressure, learning lessons and adapting to shifting consumer trends.

April 21, 2026

For the fourth consecutive year, Dairy Foods is proud to highlight and celebrate ten fascinating women who share how they overcame adversity when a project started out badly, ways their company/brands are adapting to shifting consumer trends and economic pressures, lessons they learned, and more. Check out Part 2 of our two-month feature.

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Outlook Report | Part One

Honoring Women Leaders Shaping the Dairy Industry

Tenacity, hard work and mentorship pay dividends on road to success.

Barbara Harfmann

March 11, 2026

For the fourth consecutive year, Dairy Foods is proud to highlight and celebrate 10 fascinating women who share their personal journeys in the dairy industry, mentors who inspired them, and how their company/brands are adapting to shifting consumer trends and economic pressures. Check out part one of our two-month feature.

America’s oldest family-owned creamery still going strong after 129 years

Minerva Dairy is now run by its fifth generation, with a sixth on the way.

Brian Berk

June 16, 2023

In rural Ohio, equidistant from Cleveland and Pittsburgh, lies America’s oldest family-owned butter and cheese creamery. A fifth generation operates 129-year-old Minerva Dairy today, with a sixth generation on the way.

Avoid common QA and QC mistakes

Suppliers reveals best practices and common errors in QA/QC testing.

September 8, 2021

Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) testing are essential parts of any dairy production process. These tests confirm any products leaving a dairy plant meet the company’s standards and food safety requirements — helping to ensure customer satisfaction and avoid any costly product recalls.

Get the most out of your QA/QC instrumentation

Get the most out of dairy processing QA/QC instrumentation

Dairy processors will win by avoiding purchase-decision missteps, keeping abreast of technology enhancements and addressing common challenges.

Kathie Canning

September 7, 2020

Dairy processors rely heavily on in-house instrumentation to support their in-plant quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) efforts. However, they are not necessarily getting all they could out of that instrumentation.

Make the most of quality assurance and quality control data

The right software — and the right corporate culture — could help dairy processors collect, manage and disseminate quality assurance- and quality control-related data

Kathie Canning

September 26, 2019

Dairy processing facilities have oodles of data potentially available to them, including data tied to quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC).

Reduce time to result and increase objectivity with TEMPO®

April 11, 2019

Häagen-Dazs, the ice-cream, ice-cream bar and sorbet brand was created in the United States in 1961. The Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines production site, near Arras (northern France), was chosen in 1992 for the local expertise and the availability of high-quality milk and other source materials.

Ramp up food safety efforts

A challenge for the dairy industry is more tightly controlling and understanding food safety across the entire supply chain

Tim Freier Steve Decker Charles H. White

October 18, 2018

The dairy processing industry is under constant pressure to improve its food safety systems. This pressure stems from improvements in public health surveillance (such as the expanded use of whole-genome sequencing) and a ramping-up of food safety requirements from regulators, further processing customers and consumers.

Manage food safety data

Use data analytics to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.

John T. Allan III, MS Rebecca Piston

September 17, 2018

The data age is here to stay, and we know dairy companies that don't take advantage of it will be less successful than those that do in this highly competitive, and often volatile, market environment.

Fulfill your quality assurance potential and generate net profit

Quality assurance could — and should — also drive revenue by providing the information allows plant leadership to control costs, improve operational efficiencies and maximize finished product output.

Rudy Westervelt

February 27, 2018

Quality assurance could — and should — also drive revenue by providing the information allows plant leadership to control costs, improve operational efficiencies and maximize finished product output.