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Is dairy a cannabis candidate?

The global cannabis food and beverage market is projected to grow at a double-digit compound annual growth rate of 15.2% between 2021-2026.

Kathie Canning

August 30, 2021

Back in 2019, the cottage cheese brand Muuna (now defunct) pranked its customers on April Fools’ Day with a fake flavor: Muuna Cannabis cottage cheese.

Rogue Creamery is aiming for the very best

The company’s cheese plant in Central Point, Ore., endeavors to fulfill the company’s mission of producing the “world’s finest handmade cheese.”

Kathie Canning

August 27, 2021

Way back in 1933, an entrepreneur from Portland, Ore., worked with the city of Central Point, Ore., to open the Rogue River Valley Co-op — the first artisan creamery cooperative in Southern Oregon.

Rogue Creamery is making good on its mission

The company keeps service and sustainability top of mind while aiming to create the world’s finest handmade cheese.

Kathie Canning

August 25, 2021

“Dedicated to Sustainability, Service and Creating the World’s Finest Handmade Cheese.” As mission statements go, that one is a pretty tall order.

Conveyors and palletizers: One size does not fit all dairy processors

A wide array of variables make conveyor and palletizer purchasing a tricky endeavor.

Richard Mitchell

August 20, 2021

Leveraging the optimal conveyors and palletizers for dairy processing is critical if operators are to maximize plant efficiencies while enhancing food safety. Yet, pinpointing and installing the proper technologies can be arduous.

Federal child nutrition programs need common-sense changes

The dairy industry is urging policymakers to make five specific changes to ensure the nutritional benefits of dairy are more accessible to children and families participating in these programs.

J. David Carlin

August 13, 2021

Congress is expected to take up legislation this fall to reauthorize federal child nutrition programs, including the school meals programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (“WIC”), which provides nutritious foods to supplement the diets of low-income pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, as well as infants and children up to age 5.

Maintain high-quality cheese brines

Brining plays an essential function in cheesemaking, but also presents challenges.

John A. Lucey

August 5, 2021

Brining is an important part of the cheesemaking process for most types of Italian, alpine, blue, Camembert, and Dutch-style cheeses.

Dairy plays a vital role in healthy aging

Consumers who add dairy into their diet at younger ages will reap the benefits as they get older.

Vikki Nicholson-West

August 2, 2021

Consumers in their 20s and 30s often start to think about the future. They start their career, figure out where they want to live, step up their skincare routine and exercise to stay healthy and fight the visible signs of aging — but do they know that diet also impacts aging?

Our Dairy Plant of the Year is a greenfield standout

MWC, our 2021 Dairy Plant of the Year, was built with food/employee safety, sustainability and future expansions in mind.

Anna Boisseau

August 2, 2021

Dairy Foods has a long tradition of devoting part of the August issue to our “Plant of the Year” winner. Previously, we’d nominate only the dairy plants we’d profiled in the past 18 months, and allowed readers to choose the winning facility. But this year we decided to do things a little differently: We opened up nominations to any exceptional U.S. dairy plant.

‘Holistic health’ takes center stage in food and beverage choices

The COVID-19 pandemic has consumers seeking out foods and beverages with immunity-boosting powers and more.

Kathie Canning

July 30, 2021

According to “The Future of Nutrition, Health and Wellness,” a 2021 report from global market research firm Mintel, the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked rising interest in holistic health among consumers worldwide. That reality bodes well for the growth of immunity-supporting foods and beverages.

Dairy processors catch the packaging wave

A growing array of packaging technologies and materials is helping to make dairy products more appealing, but leveraging the ideal options can be challenging.

Richard Mitchell

July 22, 2021

The dairy packaging sector is becoming an increasingly active center of innovation. Growing shopper interest in sustainability, along with changing eating habits, is resulting in the steady development of more eco-friendly designs and packaging in a wider array of shapes and sizes.

On-Demand: The need for food and beverage processors to drive down unit costs never ends. How can new/retrofitted plants be designed to optimize productivity? What solutions will have the biggest influence on productivity?

On Demand: Using cost-effective design solutions, food and beverage processing facilities can meet the rigorous performance demands required in a processing and production environment and, at the same time, focus on sustainability.

On Demand: Exclusively for thought-leaders in food and beverage processing facility management, Food Plant of the Future webinars are presented by Hixson, a leading design and engineering firm of food processing facilities in North America.

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