LaClare Family Creamery Acquires Heartland Dairy Creamery In Missouri

November 29, 2017 USA TODAY

Over the next several weeks, LaClare Family Creamery is acquiring the assets of Missouri-based Heartland Creamery. Terms of the transaction between the goat cheese makers were undisclosed.

Traders Point Creamery Milk Is Now Santa's Official Milk

November 29, 2017 Traders Point Creamery

Traders Point Creamery has registered Trademark protection for the tagline of “Santa’s Official Milk,” to be featured on its organic, 100% Grassfed Whole Milk glass quart bottles during December 2017.

Agriculture Secretary Perdue Announces National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board Appointments

November 29, 2017 USDA AMS

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of six members to serve on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. The terms for these appointees are effective immediately and expire on June 30, 2020.

Dairy Leaders Commend USDA For Expanding School Milk Options

November 29, 2017 NMPF & IDFA

The nation’s two leading dairy organizations applauded Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Wednesday for allowing school districts to offer low-fat (1%) flavored milk as part of the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. An interim final rule implementing the regulatory changes needed to reinstate low-fat flavored milk in schools was announced today on the Federal Register site and goes into effect for the 2018-2019 school year.

Grist & Toll Flour Mill Wants To Change Your Bread

Hidden in a slightly industrial-looking strip mall in the middle of Pasadena, California, is a flour mill. It's called Grist & Toll, and Nan Kohler is the owner and miller. At the mill, Kohler explained how just a few hundred years ago, flour mills used to be the city centers, but now mills like her's in an urban center are unheard of.