Cheese judging and grading are important activities performed by the cheese industry, but both play very different roles.
Judges at a contest do an intensive evaluation of a cheese, which usually starts with a perfect score of 100, and points are deducted for the number and severity of any defects. Attributes like flavor, body and …
A new record has been broken.
French pizza chefs Benoit Bruel and Fabien Montellanico recently broke a Guinness World Record for making a pizza with the most variety of cheeses.
Bruel and Montellanico made a pizza topped with 1,001 types of cheese — breaking the previous record from 2021, with 834 cheese types.
Originally published by Cheese Market News, Hindsight 2023: Year in Review, Cheese Market News’ annual round table with dairy executives to discuss highlights and challenges from the past year as well as a look ahead for what to expect in 2024.
In this year’s Q&A, panelists discuss federal milk marketing order reform, dairy market …
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 …