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Anuga International FoodTec Award
Titletown

Taste the best U.S. cheeses, then enter international food contest

Carr Valley Cheese, Cedar Grove Cheese, Organic Valley, Renard’s Cheese and Widmer’s Cheese Cellars will be available at the Cheese Champion event.
January 30, 2017

Tickets go on sale for Cheese Champion on March 9 in Green Bay, Wis. Anuga FoodTec seeks entries to its the International FoodTec Award program.


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Dairy cow photo from Dairyfoods.com courtesy of Land O Lakes
Erse-while activities

DFA and 3 other dairies plan cheese/whey plant in Michigan

The plant is projected to process 8 million pounds (3.6 million liters) of milk daily.
January 27, 2017

Glanbia plc is a 50% JV partner with Dairy Farmers of America, Michigan Milk Producers Association and Foremost Farms USA in a proposed cheese and whey production facility to be built in Michigan.


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After bottles are case packed, they are conveyed to the palletizer, wrapped in plastic and trucked to a warehouse.
Safety first

IDFA to honor safe dairy facilities; enter by April 20

Dairy processing and trucking operations will be judged on occupational injury and illness performance rates.
January 26, 2017

The International Dairy Foods Association has issued a call to dairy processors to nominate their businesses in the 13th annual Dairy Industry Safety Recognition Awards. Deadline is April 20.


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Tom Vilsack USDEC USDA
Corner office

Former USDA Secretary Vilsack to lead U.S. Dairy Export Council

The new president/CEO will provide strategic leadership and oversight of global promotional and research activities, regulatory affairs and trade policy initiatives.
January 17, 2017

The U.S. Dairy Export Council selected former U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack as president and CEO, effective Feb. 1.


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Cheeses from DuPont Nutrition & Health
This week in dairy

Hear that humming? Those are butter churns

Many butter plants are running at full capacity. Cheese production is active throughout the country, and demand picks up for milk in single-serve containers as schools return to session.
January 14, 2017

The USDA’s Dairy Market News finds that dairy processing plants are busy manufacturing butter, cheese and fluid milk.


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Ice cream sales are climbing

Ice cream sales are climbing

Sales of packaged ice cream rise 6.5% , while unit sales of frozen novelties are stuck in a rut.
sarah kennedy
Sarah M. Kennedy
January 10, 2017

Sales in the ice cream category look promising as dollars and units rose in the last year. Meanwhile unit sales in the frozen novelties category were frozen in place.


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