The Northwest Dairy Association (NDA) and its marketing subsidiary, Darigold, Inc., said they will combine their respective business operations with the Montana dairy cooperative Country Classic Dairies (CC).
Canadian dairy cooperative Agropur, Longueuil, Quebec, said its U.S. subsidiary,Trega Foods, purchased Green Meadows Foods, a cheese processor in Hull, Iowa.
Agropur, a Canadian dairy cooperative, said its Schroeder Company subsidiary in Maplewood, Minn., purchased Farmland Dairies' UHT milk processing plant in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dairy cooperative Foremost Farms USA, Baraboo, Wis., is "in the early stages of project planning" to expand and possibly double capacity at its Appleton, Wis., shredded cheese plant.
A new organization, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, has pledged to research and develop efforts that reduce dairy industry greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 25 percent during the next 11 years.
The Canadian dairy cooperative Agropur, Longueil, Quebec, said it expects this Dec. 23, 2008, to complete its purchase of Schroeder Milk, a Maplewood, Minn., milk processor.