Month: July 2017

Dairy farmers from across the country met in Edmonton, Alberta, from July 18 to 19, to participate in industry discussions and sessions at Dairy Farmers of Canada's (DFC) Annual General Meeting (AGM). Business included consideration of the Canadian Healthy Eating Strategy, upcoming re-negotiations of NAFTA, the election of a new President, and the signing of the Rotterdam Declaration by the Canada dairy sector.  …

There exists a little-known, government-sponsored marketing group called Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), whose job it is to squeeze as much milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt as it can into food sold both at home and abroad. Until recently, the “Got Milk?” campaign was its highest-impact success story. But for the past eight years, the group has been the hidden hand guiding most of fast food’s dairy hits—a kind of Illuminati of cheese—including and especially the Quesalupa. …

Great Lakes Cheese (GLC) has reached an agreement with the City of Wausau to build a new cheese packaging plant in the Wausau West Industrial Park. As part of the agreement the City of Wausau will contribute $5.9 million in tax incentives in the form of a 10 year reverse TIF to help offset the cost of building the new facility in Wausau. Great Lakes Cheese will donate to the City of Wausau the property where its current plant is located on DeVoe Street. …