Dairy

The National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council praised passage yesterday of the Travel Restriction Reform & Export Enhancement Act, H.R. 4645, by the House Agriculture Committee. H.R. 4645 is a bipartisan bill introduced by Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (Minnesota) and Representative Jerry Moran (Kansas) and co-sponsored by 61 other members of Congress. The bill passed the Committee by a vote of 25-20. …

Dairy manufacturers from throughout the state submitted close to 300 entries for the 2010 Wisconsin State Fair Cheese & Butter Contest, which took place June 25 at Wisconsin State Fair Park. The 22 classes were evaluated in such categories as flavor, appearance and texture. Following the contest, the judges selected the grand champion cheese from among the first-place entries. …

Just in time for National Ice Cream Month, the Smith Dairy Products Co. announced the launch of a video contest to celebrate summertime. …

Breese Hollow Dairy has voluntarily suspended raw milk sales until the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets resamples its milk and indicates that the product is free of pathogens. …

Neal Gottlieb worked 166 days in a row when he opened his first ice cream shop in San Rafael’s Terra Linda neighborhood in 2005. After getting the San Rafael store at 492 Del Ganado Road on its feet and branching out into wholesale, Gottlieb was able to take some days off – and open shops in Napa in December 2007 and in San Francisco’s Lower Haight neighborhood in May 2009. …