Milk processors are finding success with limited-time flavors like mint chocolate chip and birthday cake. A national campaign focusing on protein hopes to keep milk front-and-center on the breakfast table.
It all depends on the product, but expect stronger prices next year. NDM prices might rise to $1.25/pound in late 2016. Favorable skim pricing won’t last all year, while butter prices will be volatile in the first quarter 2016. As for cheese, inventories and imports hold down prices.
Tom Gallagher cites consumer demand for animal protein, international opportunities for fluid milk, environmental advances and a growing worldwide demand for dairy.
November 3, 2015
Research by the National Dairy Council has made milkfat more acceptable in the eyes of consumers and health professionals. This could have positive ramifications on full-fat dairy products.
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October 31, 2015
Milk intakes have slowed for most cheese plants. Retail and food service demand remains active to strong, which is drawing on manufacturer inventories at expected rates, reports Dairy Market News.
YUP! is the chocolate milk brand of Dairy Food's 2015 Processor of the Year. The milk launches in select markets in the Southeast and Northeast and will roll out nationally in 2016.
October 30, 2015
New flavored milk brand YUP! and digital media company Onion Inc. are calling on young adults to do nothing as part of their newly launched campaign.
Mayfield Dairy Farms manufactures milk for McDonald’s, ice cream for Baskin-Robbins and buttermilk for Cracker Barrel restaurants. The Tennessee-based dairy has expanded to Florida and Louisiana.
The company’s motto is ‘believe in better.’ That extends to its dairy products, manufacturing processes and dairy farming practices.
October 20, 2015
Dairy Foods has selected Chicago-based fairlife LLC as the 2015 Processor of the Year. fairlife created a proprietary ultra-filtration process that boosts the natural protein and calcium found in milk and reduces its natural sugars.