Milk processors are challenged every day with ensuring the consistency of incoming raw materials, making fair payments to suppliers, and producing safe and high-quality products. PerkinElmer's Scott Scodoris talks with us about how innovative analytical tools are helping processors to overcome these challenges.

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Ransomware attacks have recently impacted some large companies, including Colonial Pipeline and JBS. That reality has put many North American companies, including dairy processors, on edge. Aldo (Al) Leiva, an attorney with the law firm Baker Donelson, joins us for Episode 5 of the Let’s Talk Dairy podcast. Leiva is an expert within Baker Donelson’s Data Protection, Privacy, and Cybersecurity practice, advising clients on compliance, transactions, and litigation involving rapidly evolving federal, state, and international cybersecurity and data privacy laws. He has served as privacy compliance counsel, cybersecurity risk mitigation counsel, and general counsel for numerous food and agricultural companies. Leiva talks about how dairy processors could better prepare for ransomware and other cybersecurity attacks.

Melissa Mattilio, consumer marketing manager for Turkey Hill, joins us for episode four of the "Let's Talk Dairy" podcast. She speaks about the company's efforts in sustainability, including the Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership, which recently won an award from the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. She also discusses ways in which the dairy industry as a whole could become more sustainable and promote its environmental efforts.

Yin Woon Rani, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), joins us for episode three of the "Let's Talk Dairy" podcast. Rani brings nearly 25 years of integrated marketing experience across CPG companies and marketing agencies to her MilkPEP position. She shares some insights into milk's recent strong performance at retail. She also talks about how milk-marketing efforts need to evolve to address younger generations.

Episode two of the “Let’s Talk Dairy” podcast features Venae Watts, who is the fifth-generation co-owner of Minerva Dairy (along with her brother, Adam Mueller). The Minerva, Ohio-based company, the oldest family-operated creamery in the nation, produces premium (85% butterfat) hand-rolled butter. Watts discusses some of the factors behind the strong recent growth in the butter category — particularly on the premium side. She also talks about an exciting new butter offering from her company.

Our first “Let’s Talk Dairy” podcast features Rachel Kyllo, senior vice president of marketing and innovation for Kemps. Kyllo discusses women’s opportunities in dairy and the importance of women’s input in product development. She also highlights Kemps’ partnership with Roundy’s Supermarkets, through which the companies emphasized milk’s nutritional benefits to increase consumption during the pandemic.

Vaisala Regional Managers Herb Betts and Kevin Green discuss the Refractive Index and why it’s the best measurement principle for dairy processing plants..

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