Construction begins on $57.9 million dairy processing plant in Greenville
Foremost Farms has broken ground on a new dairy processing plant in Greenville, Michigan, beginning a project expected to bring in $57.9 million to the area and 33 jobs.
Murray Goulburn-Saputo deal: Shareholders urged to buy Koroit plant
MURRAY Goulburn shareholder Bernard Lubitz has proposed dairy farmers band together to buy the ailing company’s Koroit factory.
Murray Goulburn-Saputo deal: ACCC to vet Koroit dairy plant sale
CANADIAN dairy giant Saputo Inc. has given undertakings to Australia’s competition watchdog on the resale of Murray Goulburn’s Koroit factory should it buy the dairy co-operative’s assets.
ACCC has issue with Victorian dairy plant in Saputo, Murray Goulburn deal
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims says he would have «serious problems» with the current structure of the $1.3 billion takeover offer by Montreal-based Saputo for distressed rival Murray Goulburn.
Nutritional formula plant will ‘put Gore on the map’
From bare farmland to a bustling construction site, the rural landscape of McNab, near Gore, has transformed remarkably over the past 18 months.
By: Sally Rae
Source: Otago Daily Times
Link: https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/dairy/nutritional-formula-plant-will-%E2%80%98put-gore-map%E2%80%99
French food safety inspectors 'missed salmonella at baby milk plant'
French food safety inspectors failed to detect salmonella contamination at a plant belonging to dairy giant Lactalis, three months before the company carried out a major recall of baby milk, a report said Wednesday.
By: AFP
Source: The Local Europe
Link: https://www.thelocal.fr/20180103/french-food-safety-inspectors-missed-salmonella-at-baby-milk-plant
Processor’s Renovations Double Cheese Production at Iowa Plant
A milk processing plant in Iowa has undergone a renovation and expansion that will double its current production of cheese.
By: Wyatt Bechtel
Source: Dairy Herd
Link: https://www.dairyherd.com/article/processors-renovations-double-cheese-production-iowa-plant
Foremost Farms plans Michigan plant to process milk solids
GREENVILLE, Mich. — A farmer-owned milk cooperative has announced plans to build a new plant to process milk solids in western Michigan.
By: VICTORIA RITTER
Source: GearsOfBiz
Link: http://gearsofbiz.com/foremost-farms-plans-michigan-plant-to-process-milk-solids/193309
Dairy Farmers of America Opens Milk Powder Plant in Kansas
National cooperative Dairy Farmers of America recently marked the opening of its new milk powder plant in Garden City, KS, a press release announced Friday.
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Source: Powder/Bulk Solids
Link: http://www.powderbulksolids.com/news/Dairy-Farmers-of-America-Opens-Milk-Powder-Plant-in-Kansas-11-10-2017
New dairy plant will churn out butter, other products
As demand for butter fat continues to grow, Western Milk Pool to eliminate SNF/BF ratio.
By: Shannon VanRaes
Source: Manitoba Co-operator
Link: https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/news-opinion/news/local/new-manitoba-dairy-plant-will-churn-out-milk-butter-other-products/?module=carousel&pgtype=homepage&i=1