TWIN FALLS • Containers of Chobani Greek yogurt — blueberry, peach and strawberry flavors — adorned the banquet tables Thursday at the annual United Dairymen of Idaho conference in Boise.
Greek yogurt wasn’t part of the conference last year. Go back a few more years, and Chobani — part of parent company Agro Farma — didn’t even exist.
Today, the Idaho dairy industry is abuzz with anticipation about what Chobani’s Twin Falls arrival will bring to the state’s economy when its yogurt processing plant opens in mid-2012.
Beyond 400 new jobs for the region, the New York-based yogurt company’s new Idaho arm could mean a boost to the milk prices Idaho’s dairymen receive for their product. For a state with notoriously low milk prices, that possibility has caught plenty of attention.
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