It's that time of year in the news business, when the Year in Review gives way to the Trends to Watch For. While eating breakfast a couple of weeks ago I discovered a newspaper article identifying 10 food trends that will reveal themselves before we sing about old enzymes again at the end of December.
The most recent addition to Driggs Farms of Indiana, Inc. illustrates how equipment technology innovations have real-life applications in dairy plants.
In the past 18 months the company has introduced a line a low-carb products, completed the acquisition, installed a state-of-the-art aseptic-capable filling line at the Winchester facility, and entered into an organic milk partnership with Stonyfield Farm.
A couple days after the last of the 2004 tropical disturbances hit Florida, I was in Tampa attending the new BevExpo. Not surprisingly, I came away thinking about milk's role as a beverage.
Leafing through an airline business magazine recently, I came across a brief article about a probiotic yogurt developed by Nestlé some 11 years ago. The article's intent was to provide business travelers with a lesson about thinking outside the box, as they say