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08/20/2020
Get the word out! Contact the media: Local TV stations! Bring in a local celebrity to present your cheeses! Build a cheese plate on YouTube! Use local and artisanal cheeses - it does not need to be elaborate - just enticing! This is what they are doing in Wisconsin and it is working!  
 
08/12/2020
Live and Learn – those are good strategies!  So what are the ‘take home’ messages from this crisis for the dairy industry?
 
One is to continue to build confidence in your customers (‘confidence is the cure). Approaches to this are to tell your story, emphasize the care you take, be careful and be prudent.
 
08/06/2020
Virtual Tours are becoming more prevalent and social distancing is advised. The Idaho Milk Products is offering virtual tours of their Milk Innovation Center (MIC). It includes a state-of-the-art processing area, an instrument lab and a multi-purpose room for product evaluations.  
 
Mostly, the focus will be on ready-to-drink beverages, protein bars and ice cream!
 
07/30/2020
We all need to explore some interesting dairy products (no time like the present to spice things up a bit!) Cheeses made in Austria have unique flavors and are rather ‘unsung’. A recent issue of Cheese Connoisseur featured some of the small mountain dairies which have been making these Alpine type cheeses for generations!
 
07/23/2020
Consumers are adopting a ‘back to basics’ approach to food shopping that includes a return to fluid milk and other dairy products. Milk is outselling plant-based beverages by a margin of more than 10 to 1, according to a recent posting by Hoards Dairyman Intel. Butter is doing well too, thanks to more baking being done at home.
 
07/14/2020
Chobani has announced it will donate all profits from it’s new limited edition Greek Yogurt Peanut Butter and Jelly flavor to a nationwide network of food banks.
 
According to Chobani, they have delivered neatly 6.5 million products to US food banks, hospital frontline workers, homeless shelters and others since the COVID-19 crisis started.
 
07/07/2020
We are all looking for good, strong leaders these days, and none has been better than Marianne Smukowski who was our American Cheese Society Board of Directors President! She led us through some truly turbulent times!
 
06/23/2020
Playing the long game (and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure)!
 
Clearly we are all in this for the ‘long game’. So matters must progress  as best they can until we can return to more ordinary times. The ‘new normal’ is what we have been experiencing for some weeks now. Certainly we must accept current circumstances, but not as ‘normal’.  
 
06/10/2020
The Farmers to Families Food Box Program is a concept initialized by the USDA and approved by Congress (in a bi-partisan move!) to unite farmers with milk needing to be processed (and not dumped) with hungry people! The 317 million dollars in dairy products, processed by companies standing more or less idle with schools shut down and restaurants closed, put food in the hands of hungry people nationwide! BRAVO!!!
 
06/04/2020
Lots of effort is being made by the dairy industry to help keep people strong and well thru these challenging times. 
 
Bellwether Farms, a winner of dozens of awards for the quality of their cheese and yogurt, has launched Project Spilled Milk.  
 

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