ROSEMONT, Ill. — The sixth annual Sustainable Agriculture Summit, held virtually Nov. 18-19, attracted a record 800 attendees. The summit is hosted jointly by five organizations representing U.S. dairy, commodity crop, specialty crop, beef, and pork industries, including the checkoff-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.
Barbara O’Brien, president of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, …
LED lighting has shown tremendous potential to help mitigate some of the biggest risks in food production and to provide a safer environment for workers.
When considering an upgrade to modern, industrial LED lighting, most companies focus on the long life, low-maintenance and energy-efficient operation of these solid-state fixtures, and rightfully so. High-quality, well-designed industrial …
Both the natural and processed cheese categories saw double-digit dollar sales gains. It has been a very, very good year for cheese, at least within the major retail channels.
Dollar sales in retail channels within the natural cheese category shot up 17.0% to $15,449.5 million during the 52 weeks ending Oct. 4, 2020, according to …
Messe Frankfurt Inc. (MFI) and the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a joint venture to align their resources in order to create and to co-produce PROCESS EXPO®, the nation’s largest horizontal trade show for the food and beverage processing and packaging …
Cultured dairy categories have been keeping multiple trends in motion, with varying results. The cultured dairy segment has been tossing multiple balls in the air in an effort to meet numerous — and sometimes seemingly conflicting — consumer trends. This balancing act has been delivering mixed results for the categories within the segment.
According to …
These are challenging times, but dairy processors are finding opportunities against a backdrop of shifting markets, diminished lead time on orders, workforce safety concerns and unprecedented milk and cheese prices. Plenty of lemons. Let’s make some lemonade.
Americans have spent $5.5 billion more dollars on dairy products in grocery stores in 2020 than in the …
Stress is an inevitable part of work, but when it gets out of hand, it is bad for both the business and employees. Increasingly, many workers are not only suffering from stress but a more severe and prolonged condition that experts formally define as “burnout.” Just last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized burnout …
It’s time to move past legacy obstacles and adopt new strategies such as a modern cloud-based approach. 2020 has been challenging for dairy, and labeling is partly to blame. While the world has been gripped with a pandemic, US dairy recalls reached the highest since 2018’s end-of-year and critically, one-third of those recalls were a …
OSSEO, Wis. – For Inga Witscher, she always knew that farming was her passion, but she recently discovered something else that brings her joy. She decided to cut out the middleman and start using the milk from her farm to make her own cheese on location.
At Inga Witscher’s farm in Osseo, it’s all about …