The latest addition of Dairy Data Highlights from the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is available. The handy, pocket-size booklet includes 53 tables and 19 graphs filled with national and state milk and dairy production data from the mid-1970s through 2012. Dairy Data Highlights has been published annually by NMPF for more than 60 years. A must for anyone involved … Read More
Weddings On the Farm
Tony Azevedo, the owner of the Central California dairy has been hosting weddings for more than 20 years. In the latest Kelly Clarkson music video, newlyweds share a kiss in front of Azevedo’s cows. The dairy wedding photos of another couple are in a video for country singer Jason Aldean. Antique milk cans and bales of hay are objects of … Read More
Goodby Recounts Creation of got milk?
It’s the 20th anniversary of the “got milk?” campaign. Jeff Goodby of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners talks about how the tagline was created. It is perhaps the most boring product imaginable. We have all tried it. Most of us already own some. There is very little to say about it. Milk is not new. It is not improved. It is … Read More
CWT Export Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted four requests for export assistance from Northwest Dairy Association and Upstate Niagara (O-AT-KA) to sell 304,238 pounds (138 metric tons) of Cheddar cheese and 220,462 pounds (100 metric tons) of butter to customers in Asia and North Africa. The product will be delivered in November and December 2013. Year-to-date, CWT has assisted member cooperatives … Read More
Price Most Important in Food Purchases
Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, ”What is most important to you when buying food?” Given the economy, it’s only fitting that price won out in our poll, but also tied with whatever you’re hungry for. Guess it just depends on your mood! Our poll results: · Price – 29% · Whatever I’m hungry for – 29% · Organic – … Read More
U.S. Dairy ‘More Export-Savvy'
U.S. dairy exports could hit $6.5 billion in 2013 on the back of efforts by the increasingly “export-savvy” U.S. dairy industry to capitalize on “favorable” market conditions, the US Dairy Export Council (USDEC) has claimed. Read entire article here. Source: Dairy Reporter
Great Lakes Cheese to Open Tenn. Plant
Great Lakes Cheese will invest $100 million to open its first Southeast manufacturing facility in Manchester, Tenn. The new 330,000-square-foot manufacturing facility will be the company’s fourth “super plant” and its ninth facility nationwide. “The decision to open another super plant is a measure of our commitment to delivering quality cheese products to our customers who count on Great Lakes … Read More
Tipton Has Died
E. Linwood “Tip” Tipton, the first president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, died on Saturday at the age of 78 after a yearlong illness. Tipton grew up on a Missouri dairy farm and earned a Bachelor of Science in agriculture and a Master of Science in economics from the University of Missouri. He started his dairy career … Read More
CWT Export Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Bongards Creameries, Dairy Farmers of America, Foremost Farms, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association and Northwest Dairy Association (Darigold) to sell 2.002 million pounds (908 metric tons) of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese and 771,618 pounds (350 metric tons) of butter to customers in Asia, Central … Read More
The Milk Gap
Elanco president Jeff Simmons received the 2013 Borlaug CAST Communication Award this year at the World Food Prize and used the opportunity to talk about the difference two glasses of milk can make. Simmons says milk “one of the greatest food gaps we currently have” since there is currently 14% less milk per person globally than there was in 1961, … Read More