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August 13, 2010
Nominations Now Open for 2010 GRAND Pioneer Award
IDFA's political involvement program, Dairy Counts, is calling for nominations for the 2010 GrassRoots Action Network for Dairy (GRAND) Pioneer Award. The GRAND Pioneer Award recognizes the industry's best practices for grassroots and political involvement, and nominations are being accepted now for grassroots activities over the past year. The de...
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August 13, 2010
Yves Pouliot Receives IDFA Research Award
Yves Pouliot, Ph.D., a renowned authority on milk protein fractionation, milk processing and milk peptides, has been named the recipient of the 2010 IDFA Research Award in Dairy Processing. A food scientist and entrepreneur, Pouliot has devoted most of his research to milk chemistry and dairy processing, with a focus on the production and separatio...
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August 13, 2010
Top Athletes Team up to Refuel America with Chocolate Milk
Apolo Anton Ohno, eight-time speed-skating medalist, and Chris Bosh, USA Basketball Men's National Team member (pictured), are the latest celebrities to don a Milk Mustache. They joined some of America's top-performing athletes this week to announce a new campaign highlighting the importance of the two-hour recovery window after they have left the ...
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August 13, 2010
Dairy Industry Orientation Workshop on Tap for October
The Dairy Industry Orientation Workshop will be held October 13 in Chicago to help introduce the complex world of the dairy industry to new employees or employees with new job responsibilities. Bob Yonkers, Ph.D., IDFA vice president and chief economist, will discuss current dairy trends, government dairy policies and programs, and review how dairy...
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August 6, 2010
U.S., Mexico Reject Sugar Grower Demands
IDFA has learned that the U.S. and Mexican governments jointly issued a letter rejecting proposals submitted last fall by sugar producers to regulate cross-border sweetener trade. Instead, U.S. officials said Mexico plans to improve trade between the countries by requiring sugar producers to report more reliable and timely information about supply ...
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August 6, 2010
Senate Approves Price Reporting Bill, Pushes Trade Agenda
In the last week before the August recess, Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, successfully pushed a bipartisan dairy price reporting bill through the Senate and pressured U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk (pictured) on important agriculture trade issues. During a combined working session...
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August 6, 2010
Dairy State Senators Introduce Transportation Efficiency Bill
Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) introduced legislation on Wednesday to increase the efficiency of interstate truck transportation. The bill, titled the "Safe and Efficient Transportation Act," is also sponsored by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and is a companion bill to H.R. 1799 in the House of Representatives. The bill, S. 3705, a...
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August 6, 2010
MilkPEP Offers New Tools to Keep Milk in Schools
School lunches are a major focus of the current nutrition policy debate, so now is a great time to use the programs, materials and tools developed by the Milk Processor Education Program to help processors build better relationships with schools and increase milk consumption among students. Here are two easy steps to take. Visit schools to ensur...
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August 6, 2010
IDFA Creates Webinar on FDA Inspections: What You Need to Know
A better-funded Food and Drug Administration with many new field investigators has embarked on a massive new initiative to inspect food plants. Do you and your plant staff know the regulatory background being used by FDA investigators, including limits on their authority, as well as legal protections afforded the dairy processing industry? If not, ...
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August 6, 2010
Research Institute Formed to Expand Dairy Research
A new Dairy Research Institute, formed by Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, will bring industry leaders together to plan new research in three areas: nutrition science, product development and sustainability. IDFA will work with the Dairy Research Institute, along with the Milk Processor Education Program, the National...
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