Whey Prices Decline, Milk Prices Follow
The CME spot dairy products session on Monday started the week with little change. Three of the four products finished the session unchanged, with butter being the lone exception. Butter declined 1.5₵ to a price of $2.1475 on four trades and one bid and offer left outstanding. Cheddar blocks and barrels were a ghost town on Monday, as no trade bids or offers showed up.
Three Global Consumer Groups Driving Demand for Whey Protein
U.S. exports of whey are up and some suppliers are increasing plant capacity to meet global demand for more protein. By Mark O’Keefe.
Acid whey: Is the waste product an untapped goldmine?
Companies, food scientists develop innovative solutions to handle tons of Greek yogurt by product. By Britt E. Erickson
Scientists spin artificial silk from whey protein
A Swedish-German team of researchers has cleared up a key process for the artificial production of silk.
Cheese, Whey Prices Up; Butter, Milk Powder Down
The Class III milk price in August was $1.67 higher than in July, while the Class IV price was down 19 cents. By Jim Dunn
Whey to go: how the dairy industry is tackling waste
UK dairy should be crying buckets over spilt milk. The industry wasted 340,000 tonnes in 2015 alone, says Wrap, of which nearly two thirds (or 200,000 tonnes) was perfectly consumable. So huge was this mountain of milk, butter and cheese that Wrap determined dairy had more avoidable manufacturing waste than any other category in food and drink, its stream of unnecessary waste 23% of the total 870,000 tonnes. By Megan Tatum
Whey Products Lead June Export Surge
Overall whey product sales surged 25% over a year ago in June, spurring U.S. export sales to jump to nearly 15% of U.S. milk production on a total milk solids basis. Imports were equal to about 4% of total milk solids. BY JIM DICKRELL.
State dairy exporters looking for a new whey to raise sagging prices
It’s fitting that the first name of Little Miss Muffet, whose last name is synonymous with the nutritious benefits of whey, was Patience.
City in France Using Whey to Provide Power
In the Savoie region of France, residents in the small city of Albertville see cheese as more than a dietary staple. It’s what keeps the lights on. There, reports Smithsonian, the electrical potential of cheese—specifically, a nice piece of Beaufort—has been harnessed by a newly opened local power plant and is used to provide power to hundreds of homes.
Fonterra Says China Lifts Suspension on Whey Products
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. (FSF), the world’s biggest dairy exporter, can from tomorrow restart sales of the company’s products containing whey in China after the country lifted a 15-month ban.