The application process is open until Sept. 30 and the PCC-DBII anticipates giving out 6-10 awards, up to $250,000 each.

The board welcomes Joel Eigenbrood, Mount Pleasant, Mich., as Foremost Farms’ new chairman of the board, effective April 30.

Allan Huttema was named Interim CEO in December to replace outgoing CEO, Joe Coote, who left the dairy company with plans to return to his native Australia.

The project will preserve and renovate the historic Yellow Barn and construct a new building next door with two anchor tenants: the Hardwick-based nonprofit Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) and Greensboro cheesemaker, the Cellars at Jasper Hill. 

Feeding Pennsylvania and their nine-member food banks solicited sponsors to kick-start the 2023 campaign, raising a record of over $201,000. Funds will be used to purchase fresh milk at a reduced price from their local dairy processors.  

Robert Rich is now senior chairman, and will support his wife as she leads the company.

No dairy processor operates in a vacuum. All manufacturing operations are associated with detrimental effects on the environment. The severity of those impacts, however, differs widely from processor to processor.

The Amish community is often associated with its continued embrace of traditional agrarian values, and in that sense, Wooster, Ohio-based Green Field Farms fits the bill.