Keith Woodford says there are lessons to learn from Oregon dairy farming
This last week I have been in Tillamook, in Western Oregon. Together with three colleagues from Calder Stewart, I have been exploring the dairy systems here, to see what learnings we can bring back to New Zealand. By: Keith Woodford
Cheddar cheese prices enjoy a bump on Tuesday
With some of the highest single day price gains ever, Tuesday of this week proved to be a highlight for Cheddar cheese prices in the spot market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. By Ray Mueller
Butter is back, bubbling up with golden demand
That bar of butter on the shelf was once seen as the bad boy of your refrigerator, the artery clogger to be avoided, except for the occasional guilty indulgence. What’s popcorn without butter, after all? Still, sales of margarine and other butter substitutes spiked for years.
CWT Assists with 3.8 million Pounds of Cheese, Butter and Whole Milk Powder Export Sales
The product has been contracted for delivery in the period from January through July 2016.
CWT Assists with 8 million Pounds of Cheese, Butter and Whole Milk Powder Export Sales
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 18 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Northwest Dairy Association (Darigold) and Tillamook County Creamery Association who have contracts to sell 465,175 pounds (949 metric tons) of Cheddar and Gouda cheese, 6.515 million pounds (2,955 metric tons) of butter and 1.041 million pounds (472 metric tons) of whole milk powder to customers in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and South America. The product has been contracted for delivery in the period from October 2015 through March 2016.
Tillamook #Cheese expands Port of Morrow facility
Tillamook Cheese has completed a 65,000-square-foot expansion of its cheese-making facility at the Port of Morrow to process both lactose powder and a dried whey protein concentrate.