A new cookbook titled “Living the Mediterranean Diet” would make a good gift for a foodie friend.

Dairy Foods' 22nd annual Dairy 100 report identifies the largest dairy processors based in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Three companies are based in Canada and one in Mexico. Wisconsin is home to the most Dairy 100 firms (12), followed by California and Minnesota (each with 10).

The largest dairies in North America are developing new products, investing in infrastructure, managing costs, and recruiting and retaining employees. But so are successful dairies of any size.

Start-up brands turn to dairy processors to make their ideas come to life. So do some established dairies that might not have the in-house expertise or the capital to buy and install processing lines. Contract manufacturing is a multibillion-dollar business benefitting both parties.

The conversation about food has turned away from protein, calcium and vitamins to 'natural' and absence claims (like no artificial colors, gluten or GMO ingredients). What's a dairy to do?

Fathers' Day is this month, high school and college students will receive their diplomas on graduation day and brides like to tie the knot in June. But the dairy industry celebrates not just one day but the entire month of June.

In honor of David Letterman's last show, I present 'The Top 10 Indications Your Dairy Product Is A Hit.'

It's a journalistic crutch to evoke T.S. Eliot and his description of April in his poem "The Wasteland." Nevertheless, it's an apt description of the food recalls that roiled the industry in the last 30 days.

The maker of Italian ice thrives when each department operates at its peak and communicates with the others. Getting to that point, though, was not easy.

That Parmesan cheese you're shaking on your spaghetti and meatballs might not be quite up to snuff.