Dairy

The 2010 ADPI/ABI Annual Conference attracted just under 700 manufacturers, marketers and suppliers of manufactured dairy products from 16 different countries. Participants gathered for several days in Chicago, IL to hear prominent industry and government representatives discuss the state of the dairy industry and to network at the unique conference where the dairy industry does business. …

Test Guernsey Farms Dairy’s new line of probiotic milk and its other products at a Taste Fest, 2-4 p.m., Saturday, May 1, at the dairy, 21300 Novi Road, between Eight Mile and Nine Mile in Detroit, MI. …

The USDA announced plans to increase the raw sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) by 200,000 tons for fiscal year 2010. IDFA has been aggressively urging USDA to increase the quota. However, the level of TRQ increase announced last week falls well below what IDFA says is needed to ease sugar prices and supply woes. …

Pritzker Olsen law firm has filed a lawsuit through its local counsel on behalf of James and Maureen Orchard, a Pittsburgh-area couple sickened last month by Campylobacter after drinking raw milk produced by Pasture Maid Creamery LLC of New Castle, Pennsylvania. …

U.S. dairy farms, including California dairies, have the worlds lowest emissions of
climate-changing greenhouse gases, according to a report released today by the United Nations. …