The Heritage Cheese House, started in 1994 under Amish ownership as a place for the local community to sell its milk, closed its doors this week, causing more than 65 Amish dairy farmers to loose their market for milk. Now Agri-Mark cooperative which also owns Cabot and McCadam Cheese, is helping to build temporary storage and cooling stations, called community … Read More
China's Milk Scandal Expands
China’s tainted-milk scandal has led to bans or recalls in 16 countries from companies including Cadbury, Kraft and Mars. No tainted products have been sold in the United States. Cadbury said 11 types of chocolate bars made at its factory in Beijing and sold in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia were being recalled as a precautionary measure. Tests “cast … Read More
Probiotic Yogurt Cheese Introduced
Applegate Farms, has introduced Yogurt Cheese with probiotics. The product is a pre-sliced cheese that contains probiotics, beneficial microorganisms in the form of live active cultures. Applegate Farms new yogurt cheese is made from yogurt that is certified with “live and active cultures,” having at least 100 million bacteria per gram at the time of manufacture. There are three main … Read More
Rockin' Refuel Developed by Shamrock
Shamrock Farms is excited to introduce what may be the first chocolate-milk based sports beverage. The beverage was developed after the release of a 2006 report by the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism reported released a study that indicated chocolate milk may work as well as sports drinks for recovering from strenuous exercise. Rockin’ Refuel has 20 … Read More
Weekly CWT Export Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has announced their updated export bids for the past week. Nine bids were accepted from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, Mo., eight of them for the following AMF exports: 54 metric tons (119,050 lbs.) of to Panama, another 54 metric tons (119,050 lbs.) of to Panama, 18 metric tons (39,683 lbs.) to Panama, 72 … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cash block cheese continues to creep toward the $2 mark again but stopped short at $1.94, down 1 1/2-cents on the week but four cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.9525, up two cents on the week and 10 1/4-cents above a year ago. Eight Cars of block traded hands on … Read More
Subscribe To World Dairy Diary on Twitter
Besides subscribing to the RSS feed of World Dairy Diary we’ve now got another option for you. World Dairy Diary has its own Twitter feed. If you’re not familiar with Twitter then you can learn more here. Basically, the news feed from World Dairy Diary will post updates to the Twitter feed. Additionally, we’ll use the Twitter feed for custom … Read More
Two New Area Reps for Jersey
Congratulations to Patty Holbert, Magnolia, Ky. and Justin Edwards, Starkville, Miss. who have both has been named Area Representative for the American Jersey Cattle Association and National All-Jersey Inc. The USJersey field service team now has 11 full-time staff, just as the association is anticipating another record year for registrations and performance program enrollments. Holbert joined the Jersey appraisal staff … Read More
Why China Matters to the U.S. Dairy Industry
The recent China milk scandal in China has put that country at the top of the news filter. But there is some positive news regarding China for the dairy industry – as told by Tom Quaife at Dairy Herd Management – simple put, China matters to the future of the U.S. dairy industry. Song Kun Gang proposes a Chinese version … Read More
Dannon Joins Children's Initiative
Dannon has become the 15th major food and beverage company to join the Council of Better Business Bureau’s Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. The Initiative was launched in November 2006 by the Council of Better Business Bureaus to provide companies that advertise foods and beverages to children with a transparent and accountable advertising self-regulation mechanism. The Initiative is aimed … Read More