Dairy

The new year is still in single digits and we're supposed to be talking about healthy eating, so a post about butter, now, really? But if there's to be a resolution about butter for 2013, it shouldn't be to avoid it altogether. Instead, let's eat better butter, the kind that tastes of the milk it comes from.Madison County's Kriemhild Farms (pronounced cream-hild) is making that kind of butter.

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Congress’s “fiscal cliff” deal on New Year’s Day included a nine-month extension of the expiring U.S. farm bill, preventing retail milk prices from doubling to $7 or more in 2013. That’s a great relief for milk producers, but the last-minute reprieve shouldn’t blind them to the fact that they have already fallen off their own cliff. …

Smith Dairy Products Company announced that Nate Schmid was named president of the Orrville, Ohio based company.  Mr. Schmid succeeds retiring Smith Dairy President Ron Them, who held that position since 2008 and had been with the company since 1974. …

A sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter was unveiled today at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, paying tribute to Pennsylvania's diverse agriculture industry. …

Dean Foods Company announced the completion of the previously announced sale of its Morningstar Foods division to Saputo Inc. for US$1.45 billion. …