According to local broadcast reports, Land O'Lakes will close its butter manufacturing plant in Madison, leaving around 120 workers out of a job.The St. Paul, Minn.-based company announced it will

A recent research report concludes that the dairy industry’s shift to recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST)-free milk was an overly quick response to a problem that seemed bigger than it was

More than half of the nation’s 100 largest dairies have completely or partially discontinued the use of recombinant bovine growth hormone, known as rBGH or rBST. The genetically engineered drug

At the IFT ’09 Annual Meeting and Food Expo, June 5-8, Dairy Management Inc. will demonstrate how dairy ingredients and dairy foods deliver exceptional nutrition, functionality and flavor to meet

Jack H. Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Stater Bros. Holdings, Inc., has announced that the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Stater Bros. Markets, has agreed in principle to sell Santee

A new milk product that tastes just like chocolate chip ice cream and a pomegranate blueberry cream cheese dip are the most innovative new dairy products, according to a recent

A $90 million expansion at Southwest Cheese will increase its milk processing capacity by a third and bring approximately 50 full-time jobs to the area.Production at the Clovis plant is

While the recession has Wisconsin dairy processors scaling back on spending, they still plan to invest $781 million in their plants in the next five years. Wisconsin dairy plants spent

Miriam Erickson Brown, chief executive officer of the family-owned, Iowa-based Anderson Erickson Dairy Co., testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee and its chairman, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), at a hearing

Unilever announced that it will be closing its manufacturing plant in Framingham, Mass.“Unilever continually looks for ways to achieve greater efficiencies across our Supply Chain network,” said Steve Rosemary, director