Gossner Foods, Logan, Utah, says it will spend $40 million to convert a shuttered J.R. Simplot potato plant in Idaho to a Swiss cheese and whey operation. Plans call for

An organic milk with the Stonyfield brand will be showing up in supermarkets and natural food stores nationwide in a few months.

Kraft Foods Inc. has struck a deal to use the South Beach Diet's trademark, in an effort to cash in on the low-carbohydrate dieting trend. Northfield, Illinois-based Kraft, the largest

Wisconsin Dairy Products Association recently recognized George Cornell with its 2004 WDPA Presidents Award. Cornell, a veteran of Schreiber Foods and Land O'Lakes has been actively engaged in the dairy

Dean Foods is consolidating its fluid milk operations in the New Orleans area. According to a local newspaper report, Dean will close the Barbe's Dairy facility in Westwego, and combine

GREEN BAY, Wis.-Level Valley Creamery, based in West Bend, Wis. is the latest substantial operation to be assimilated by Schreiber Foods of Green Bay. The two companies announced the buyout

Scholle Corp., Northlake, Ill., has opened a sales office in Weinheim, Germany, that will sell bag-in-box packaging to markets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The office, a registered GmbH, will

Producers join IDFA at Washington Conference

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Denver-based Robinson Dairy, a division of the Dean Dairy Group, in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League, is printing a message of respect on 15 million half-pint and half-gallon milk

USDA is cutting minimum milk price supports again this month, and consumers may be waiting to see prices drop in the dairy case before returning to normal purchase patterns. May