Month: December 2017

Ruth Farms, home of Happy Yolks LLC, held an open house Thursday to give the public a look at its operation, which is still under construction. Ruth Farms will use Tecno Cage Free Poultry Systems, which houses a large number of laying hens without the confinement of cages. The operation will consist of two buildings, each of which will have two stories containing six, 468-foot long rows of feeder space, able to accomodate over 101,000 layers per floor. …

For most of the past year, Hampton Creek has had egg on its face. Top executives tried to oust CEO Josh Tetrick in a coup, the food company’s boardroom emptied out, and Target pulled its faux mayonnaise off shelves. The San Francisco startup is now trying to clean up its act — and get the egg off not just its face but also breakfast plates, with the help of a new board of directors, fresh funding and a new, egg-free product made from vegetable protein. …

"We're in a situation today where we've got more local milk production than we have processing capacity that can handle the production," said Rick Naerebout, CEO of the Idaho Dairymen's Association. "And so we're faced with a situation where we have to push milk out of the area to find homes to process it." …