The Coca-Cola Company may have finally found a realistic way of getting into the flavored milk business. The Atlanta-based soft drink leader has agreed to an arrangement under which it would become a stakeholder and master distributor of Bravo! Foods Intl., marketers of the Slammer line of flavored milks.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Wisconsin cheese producer, Uplands Cheese Company won the coveted "Best of Show" award last month at the 22nd annual American Cheese Society competition. Uplands' Pleasant Ridge Reserve got top honors for a rare second time at the prestigious competition of artisan and farmstead cheesemakers. The same cheese won Best of Show at the 18th annual American Cheese Society competition.

UK dairy group Arla Foods has seen its profits more than double in the six months ending March 31, as improved sales and cost-cutting measures benefited the company.

Dairy Management Inc. is introducing a new website for food processors, innovatewithdairy.com. This single-source site integrates the content from doitwithdairy.com and extraordinarydairy.com with relevant nutrition information. Got Beer? Got Blood?

June milk production jumped 5.4% in the top 23 dairy states, according to USDA. The agency also revised May milk production up 0.2%, now saying May's output was up 4.6%. For the first half of 2005, total U.S. production jumped 2.6% over last year.

In June California jumped 154 million lbs.; Wisconsin was up 96 million lbs. California and Wisconsin were the biggest gainers in total output in June (combined, they contribute 34% of the nation's milk). California is milking 33,000 more cows than it did a year ago.

OAKLAND, Calif.-Having just concluded one national sweepstakes promotion, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream is wasting no time in launching another.

The National Milk Producers Federation says nearly three-fourths of the nation's milk supply is now contributing 5 cents per hundredweight to the Cooperatives Working Together program (CWT).

More than forty executives from the International Dairy Foods Association member companies took CAFTA approval and other issues to lawmakers on Capitol Hill during the Association's annual Washington Conference.

USDA closed the books June 30 on its FY 2005 Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) with almost no activity for the year. During the entire year, USDA never requested bids or awarded bonuses, so no dairy products were exported under the once-popular program. The reason is not much of a mystery. Demand for U.S. dairy products was strong throughout the year, keeping prices high, making government compensation for exporters unnecessary. International milk production was down, and the currency battering suffered by the dollar worked to U.S. producers' advantage, pumping up demand for U.S. non-fat dry milk. U.S. NFDM exports are up 155% since July 1, 2004, when the DEIP fiscal year began.

Coolbrands International, Inc., Ontario, last month reported losses of $6.9 million for its third quarter, saying that the conclusion of an important contract with Weight Watchers and costs relating to the development of new brands were the major factors.