Dairy

Men's Health magazine has released their annual list of "125 Best Foods for Men," and awarded Eggland's Best (EB) as the "best egg" in the dairy and deli category. After tasting, testing and analyzing over 1,000 supermarket products and awarding points to products that contain the fewest calories and deliver the most protein and fiber, Men's Health magazine selected Eggland's Best, citing their superior nutrition, taste and "rich, buttery yolks". …

Oakhurst Dairy, northern New England’s largest independent family-owned dairy company and the first dairy company in the United States to purchase a hybrid delivery truck in 2009, unveiled three new hybrid electric delivery trucks at an event for employees and local and state officials at its Hooksett facility. The new vehicles will only operate in New Hampshire and primarily in the state’s ozone non-attainment areas, which include municipalities in Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham and Strafford Counties. Currently, these areas do not meet federal air quality standards. The three new hybrid delivery trucks represent an expansion of the dairy’s existing alternative technology vehicle fleet. …

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy®, established under the leadership of dairy farmers, today announced the blue-ribbon judging panel for the second annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. The U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards program recognizes dairy farms, businesses and collaborative partnerships for their contributions to healthy people, healthy products and a healthy planet. Nominations are open to all dairy farms and businesses, from farm to table, through Nov. 15, 2012. …

Whether it concerns large cheese blocks for the catering industry or sliced cheese for consumers, cheese products from Arla Foods are renowned in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In its production facility in Götene (Sweden), Arla Foods packs sliced cheese with the unique Amcor E-Close® solution on a fully automatic production line with a SEALPAC RE30 thermoformer at its centrepiece. We spoke with Torbjörn Wiechert and Thommy Pheiffer, who designed and implemented this high-capacity line together with SEALPAC and its Swedish distributor JS Teknik, about the challenge of packaging development, and about the best recloseable system in the market. …

How did Santa Claus get his milk mustache? That’s the theme for the Florida Dairy Farmers’ artwork contest that could land a child’s creation on the cover of the organization’s 2012 holiday card. …