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Family-owned Velvet Ice Cream and franchised Carvel Ice Cream Shoppes are giving away ice cream this month.

Ice cream maker Chip Graeter traded in a hairnet for a hardhat today as he toured reporters through the company’s soon-to-be opened ice cream shop in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook. 

Yogurt manufacturers are getting innovative and capitalizing on the diversity of yogurt with niche products and appealing to a wider audience. Whole-fat and low-sugar varieties are part of the mix.

Consumers seek foods with clean labels. Dairy processors have a variety of sweetener options to help them achieve an easy-to-pronounce (meaning ‘clean’) ingredient statement.

Four new flavors were added to Orwigsburg, Pa.-based Yuengling’s premium ice cream line

On a tour of Europe, Kroger’s dairy experts saw technologies and processing techniques not found in a typical American. Best practices at Mountain View Foods in Denver preserve milk’s freshness and help Kroger develop innovative dairy-based products.

Clearing processing lines with a pig captures product that can be re-used and saves on cleaning chemicals. Valve manifolds can improve flexibility and efficiency in plants processing liquid products.