Horizon Organic has introduced a program to help New York dairy producers transition to organic. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined with the company in late January to unveil the Horizon Organic Producer Education (HOPE) Program.

Bruce Tharp was to be honored with a lifetime award at IDFA's Ice Cream Technology Conference early this month. Tharp, who along with Steve Young, writes a quarterly column for Dairy Foods, has been a part of the industry for more than 40 years.

Seems Anglo/Dutch Food and consumer products giant Unilever plan to stay in the ice cream game. News last month that it was shedding some of its frozen vegetable business was accompanied by a proclamation that it has no intention of getting rid of any of its ice cream lines, as had been rumored.

If PepsiCo can introduce flavored milk under the Quaker brand, then marketing a Cherry Garcia milk shake ought to be a snap. That seems to be the logic as the nation's No. 2 soft drink company has signed a multi-year U.S. licensing agreement with Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream to sell premium milkshakes.

Dairy exporters are hailing the opening of new talks with South Korea, aimed at creating a Free Trade Agreement between the two trading partners. The Asian nation is already the sixth largest importer of U.S. agricultural products.

COLOGNE, Germany-Next month the international food technology sector will be meeting in Cologne for Anuga FoodTec, the international trade fair for food and drink equipment technology.

Ice Cream Race Escalates as Nestle Takes Bigger Stake in Dreyer's

A new clinical trial published last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by researchers at Purdue University, found that women burned more fat and more calories after a meal when their diets included 3-4 servings of dairy daily.

Swiss Valley Farms' Regular Swiss was judged Best Overall Cheese, and Tillamook Cheese received eight awards at the National Milk Producers Federation's (NMPF) annual meeting held Nov. 29 - Dec. 2 in San Francisco.

Global ingredients company Tate & Lyle, has signed agreements to acquire U.S. specialty food ingredients company Continental Custom Ingredients (CCI) and the Italian based Cesalpinia Group.