Danone this week announced it has signed an agreement to sell its premium organic dairy activity in the United States to Platinum Equity, a U.S.-based investment firm. The sale includes Horizon Organic and Wallaby.
Horizon Organic is the largest USDA-certified organic dairy brand in the world and introduced the first organic milk available coast to …
While Cheddar prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in the last weeks of the year have been lower than expected, dairy analysts say market fundamentals point to increasing demand for U.S. cheese both domestically and abroad in the months ahead.
Cheddar barrels and blocks last week fell to their lowest levels since July, with …
At the PA Farm Show, the 2024 Fill a Glass with Hope (FGWH) charitable milk distribution program got a boost with $135,500 in donations thanks to its annual Feeding Pennsylvania fundraising campaign launch.
Joining Feeding Pennsylvania to announce the kickoff were program supporters: Two-time Super Bowl Champion and Former NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers) Charlie Batch; Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Russell Redding; Feeding …
As milk production is projected to remain steady among major global dairy exporters in 2024, global dairy trade projections vary by commodity, with cheese exports forecast up 3%, butter down 3% and powder exports nearly the same, according to USDA’s latest biannual “Dairy: World Markets and Trade” report released this week.
Fluid milk production in …
The spike in global food insecurity has potential huge consequences.
After a sustained period of fewer wars and the fact that fewer people went to bed hungry each night, our world is experiencing an intense period of heightened global conflict with serious geopolitical consequences, altering our nation’s security.
Limited milk supply growth and lackluster demand led to soft dairy commodity pricing in 2023. However, the global dairy market appears to be transitioning to the next phase in its cycle, with prices expected to move higher through 2024. Still, the market remains finely balanced, and uncertainty remains surrounding underlying demand for 2024, says Rabobank …
Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin (DFW) identified five 2024 cheese trends.
“The most successful businesses in the world are the ones that truly understand their consumers,” says Suzanne Fanning, chief marketing officer for Wisconsin Cheese and Senior Vice President of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin. “What people care about and what drives them should always be top of mind for …
Utah-based cheesemakers Beehive Cheese and Gossner Foods have announced plans to expand their longtime partnership to production of Beehive’s Promontory Cheddar.
Beehive Cheese has been sourcing its milk from Gossner Foods for more than 18 years. Starting in the summer of 2024, the partnership between these multi-generational, family-owned companies will expand. Using Beehive Cheese’s recipe …
U.S. per capita cheese consumption reached an all-time high in 2022 at nearly 42 pounds per person, a half-a-pound per-person increase over the previous year, according to annual data on per capita dairy consumption released yesterday by USDA’s Economic Research Service. Per capita consumption of all dairy products was 653 pounds on a milkfat basis …
The line between restaurant menus and home cooking is blurring, thanks to social media like TikTok where restaurant dishes become viral sensations and in the right culinary hands popular social “food fads” are translating to menus and limited time offers, according to the National Restaurant Association’s 2024 What’s Hot Culinary Forecast. The report’s insights are …