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 …
The company introduced a line of ingredient solutions that helps food manufacturers serve up a creamy mouthfeel and rich cheese flavor.
Butter Buds Inc. introduced a line of ingredient solutions that helps food manufacturers serve up a creamy mouthfeel and rich cheese flavor. Butter Buds’ new creamy product line offers a cream-forward cheese flavor profile …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released grant approval that will expand the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Projects (HFMI), a program established by Congress in the 2018 Farm Bill and one of the Department’s key nutrition incentive programs for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
HFMI projects provide SNAP beneficiaries with a dollar-for-dollar …
Universities, manufacturers partner to shape New North’s engineering workforce
With “engineer” consistently landing on the list of Northeast Wisconsin’s top 10 hardest jobs to fill and cost estimates as high as $50,000 to lure an engineer from outside the region, two New North universities are stepping up their games and developing programs aimed directly at …