Month: January 2011

Tillamook County Creamery Association (Tillamook), which makes the No. 1 selling natural cheese brand in the West, has added William Tennant Jr., as vice president of operations. …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture found that grocery prices grew by only 0.3 percent last year — the lowest annual increase since 1967 — and that restaurant prices inched up by only 1.3 percent, the lowest bump since 1955. But that trend is about to end. …

Each year, federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating the milk Americans drink, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue. …

After spending a day with her boyfriend’s family recently, my daughter marveled, “They only drink whole milk!” That milk was delicious, she reported, even after the container had sat on the counter for a while. My darling child, whom I’ll send to college in a few months, had never tasted whole milk before. …