‘The Creamery’ will replace the existing cheese store on the site of the cooperative’s Beaver plant.

The changes reflect a new vision and a mission to better connect with consumers.

Told from the viewpoint of the Gentine family, the book expounds upon how Leonard Gentine built a billion-dollar cheese company.

The organization is now known as Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.

The company will invest more than $15 million in an expansion that includes a refrigerated/freezer warehouse.

Over the past decade, the dairy industry has experienced a boom in the production of Greek-style yogurt (GSY). While in 2004 GSY accounted for less than 2% of all yogurt types produced domestically, by 2015 this number skyrocketed to almost 40%.

Expert speakers will address dairy and human health, trends and opportunities, and more.

Jarrod McCarroll, president and CEO of Weber Inc., is now chairman.

For 2018, the Breakthrough Award for Dairy Ingredient Innovation, a competition hosted by the Elmhurst, Ill.-based American Dairy Products Institute and Dairy Foods, goes to Caloris Engineering and Lone Star Dairy Products LLC.

Every few days or so, I come across a dairy industry-related news item that stands out among all the standard PR about acquisitions, plant upgrades, personnel changes, marketing campaigns and regulatory happenings. Whether that news is sad, funny or simply bizarre, it generally is excluded from our regular online coverage.