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Dairy Foods & Beverages
See the latest dairy products, including milk, cheese, yogurt, other cultured dairy foods, ice cream and more.
Topics
Butter
The latest news and trends with all things butter and butter blends.
Cheese
Information on natural and processed cheese products in the dairy industry.
Cultured Dairy
Industry news and information on cultured dairy products, including yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, and dips.
Frozen Desserts
Updates and news on frozen desserts, including ice cream cakes and other frozen desserts made with dairy ingredients.
Ice Cream/Novelties
Dairy industry-related news on ice cream, ice milk, novelties, sherbets, sorbets and frozen yogurt.
Milk
Information on milk processing, milk processors and all types of fluid milk products – whole, skim, 2%, 1%, flavored, cream and half-and-half.
Non-Dairy Beverages
Industry updates on non-dairy beverages including juices, teas, coffees, and soy.
Whey, Milk Powder
Information on all things whey and milk powder related in the dairy industry, including whey protein concentrate, whey protein isolate, milk protein concentrate.
Sales Data
Dairy industry sales information, such as dollar sales, unit sales and market share.
International Dairy Products
International dairy products, including: cheese, milk, ice cream, cultured dairy, butter and frozen desserts.
Dairy Alternatives
News and updates on dairy alternatives in the food and beverage industry.
ARTICLES
State of the Industry: Butter category has its ups and downs
Dairy butter sales enjoy a solid year, but other subsegments are not as smooth.
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State of the Industry: Refrigerated beverages sales percolate
Bottled juices, RTD coffee/tea and aseptic juices see year-over-year sales declines, however.
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State of the Industry: Cultured Dairy eclipses dairy industry with protein-packed nutrition
Yogurt, cottage cheese drive sales due to health and wellness benefits.
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State of the Industry: A sunny and bright outlook for cheese
With 0.5% growth, cheese category to churn out $69.7 billion by 2028
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State of the Industry: Ice cream continues its ascent
Frozen novelty and dessert sales melt however.
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Celestial Seasonings unveils new teas
Caffeine-free teas provide wellness benefits in time for colder weather.
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State of the Industry: Milk sales swirl like fall winds
Milk category declines 1.2%, but notches dollar sales of $19.6B
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Baker announces her Cream Cheese Pound Cake on Oprah’s Favorite Things
Small business previously recognized for Pecan Crisp Cookies.
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Sharon Gerdes
Sharon Gerdes is the Health and Wellness editor of Dairy Foods. She is a Certified Food Scientist and author who writes extensively about dairy’s role in health and wellness. Learn more at http://sharongerdes.com.
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IMAGE GALLERIES
Casper’s Ice Cream - Richmond, UT
Casper’s Ice Cream’s newest plant is a frozen novelty powerhouse. The state-of-the-art processing facility produces 350 million ice cream and frozen novelty products annually.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!
Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery - Ellsworth, Wis.
The cooperative has operated a plant in Ellsworth since 1910, but the facility’s cheesemaking operations began in the 1960s. In the 1980s, Ellsworth began expanding its cheese curd production beyond just local sales. The company now manufactures 180 SKUs in Ellsworth. (It also operates plants in Comstock, Wis., and New London, Wis.).
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!
Graeter’s Ice Cream, Cincinnati, OH
Visitors to Graeter's would spy numerous somewhat peculiar-looking stainless-steel stations, distributed across four and a half rows, housing stainless-steel buckets. These station-and-bucket combinations are vat freezers, or modernized French Pots, and they are the main reason the plant employs so many people. Graeter's has relied on the labor-intensive French Pot process since the company's founding almost 150 years ago.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!
Rumiano Cheese Co., Crescent City, Calif.
Rumiano Cheese Co.’s plant produces award-winning organic and conventional cheeses, along with whey protein concentrate (WPC-80%), dried edible lactose and European-style butter.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!
Kilby Cream, Colora, MD.
At their creamery in Colora the Kilbys bottle fresh milk and churn ice cream. They have a growing home delivery business and a busy ice cream shop. The ice cream store participates in agri-tourism events that show the public where their food comes from.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!
Production, prices rise for organic dairy foods
Through the first half of this year, production of whole and 2% milk shows double-digit growth. Prices for cheese blocks, butter and sour cream are greater this year than last.
4 ways to think about dairy foods for National Dairy Month
The National Dairy Council designates June as Dairy Month. We look at some ways in which consumers can meet the recommended three servings a day.
Fluid milk comes in various forms
Dairy processors create value-added milks by removing lactose or adding omega 3s, by adding flavors and by culturing it for buttermilk.
The Empire State is the Cultured Dairy State
When it comes to cultured dairy products, New York dairy processors manufacture more cottage cheese and sour cream than any other state in the union.
12 new ice cream novelties and other frozen novelties
A slew of new ice cream and frozen novelties were introduced this year from Unilever brands like Magnum, Popsicle, Good Humor, Klondike, plus Tillamook and more. In our continued celebration of National Ice Cream Month, we’ve gathered 12 of our favorite ice cream novelties and other frozen treats.
Click through the slideshow to learn more, and check back at the end of the month when we discuss what the hottest ice cream flavor trends are.
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Gilbreth Shrink Sleeves: Shrink Sleeve Packaging in Just 4 Steps
November 14, 2011
