Articles Tagged with ''dairy processing news''

Don't cry over split milk

Alliance of Western Milk Producers disbands

AWMP decides a formal organization is no longer necessary to accomplish a concerted effort of California cooperatives.
November 1, 2012

Effective today, the Alliance of Western Milk Producers, a coalition of California dairy processing cooperatives representing 60% of California’s milk, will cease to function. 


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Glanbia USA accepts the 2012 Tom Camerlo exporter of the year award
Awards

Glanbia USA accepts Exporter of the Year award

The cheese and ingredient processor is the 2012 recipient of the Tom Camerlo Exporter of the Year award
October 23, 2012

Dairy Foods presented the Tom Camerlo Exporter of the Year award to Glanbia USA at the annual membership meeting of the U.S. Dairy Export Council in Washington, D.C.


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Swiss Valley Farms sells a Wisconsin facility to Tritent International
Asset sale

Swiss Valley Farms sells a Wisconsin facility to Tritent International

Swiss Valley Farms said the Platteville facility had been non-operational after the dairy cooperative transferred production of its Baby Swiss wheels, loaves and no-salt-added Swiss blocks to White Hill Cheese, Shullsburg, Wis., in October 2011.
October 9, 2012

 

Swiss Valley Farms, Davenport, Iowa, said it sold its Platteville, Wis., cheese manufacturing facility to Tritent International Agriculture Inc., Chicago. The sale became effective Sept. 18, 2012. Details of the transaction are not being publicly disclosed.


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USDA dairy prices
USDA's Dairy Market News

Ads for dairy products show football, baking themes this week

Conventional milk’s national weighted average advertised price for half gallons this period, $2.27, is 14 cents below two weeks ago.
October 5, 2012

Cheese prices across the U.S. continued to move higher this week and milk production is increasing, to varying degrees, across most regions of the nation, reports the USDA's Dairy Market News.


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Strategies

Dean Foods thinks about selling its Morningstar unit

It would sell only "if it can do so in a transaction that maximizes shareholder value and helps ensure the future success of the business."
September 26, 2012

The nation's largest dairy processor, Dean Foods, says it "recently decided to explore a transaction that may result in the sale of the Morningstar business."


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Keep your mitts off fees

IDFA opposes the new fees and milk supply regulations proposed in the 2012 Farm Bill

IDFA shares concerns about industry fees and cautioned that a new Farm Bill proposal, recently endorsed by Secretary Tom Vilsack, would both raise fees and increase domestic milk prices.
September 10, 2012

The International Dairy Foods Association today responded to Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer’s concern that the Republican nominee for President, Mitt Romney, raised milk fees. IDFA shares concerns about industry fees and cautioned that a new Farm Bill proposal, recently endorsed by Secretary Tom Vilsack, would both raise fees and increase domestic milk prices.


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