While innovation in the dairy category has been impacted by the pandemic and inflation, processors have found successful innovation centers around plant-based alternatives, new formats, simple ingredient listings and formulations that meet specific dietary needs.

A few months before the 2019 IBIE, the United Nations in concert with 25 businesses launched its “business ambition for 1.5˚C,” a call to action looking for the business community to set verifiable science-based targets toward limiting global warming to 1.5˚C and to achieve a net-zero emission economy by 2050.

Goat cheese maker Vermont Creamery announced it joined the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance, a collaboration involving US food industry companies that seeks to recycle more food waste and expand renewable energy production.

Kwik Lok will feature the latest in sustainable closure solutions and machinery at the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) from September 18-21 in Las Vegas.

While carbon neutral is appearing on food and beverage product packaging, consumers are not that familiar with the concept, according to a survey from Morning Consult.

ADM and Benson Hill, Inc. have entered a long-term strategic partnership to scale innovative soy ingredients to help meet the rapidly growing demand for plant-based proteins and serve a variety of plant-based food and beverage markets to meet savory, sweet and dairy customer needs, the companies announced Aug. 8.

Tillamook County Creamery Association outlined how it plans to achieve specific dairy industry climate action goals by 2050.

The US Department of Agriculture will continue to push climate change as a policy issue in farm and export programs, Department officials said in comments at the 37th International Sweetener Symposium held Aug. 1 in Vail.

Coinciding with its first milk pickups at small organic farms in Vermont, Maine, New York and New Hampshire, Organic Valley announced it added 51 new farms to its cooperative.

Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., a subsidiary of JBS S.A., released its 2021 Sustainability Report that shows the company’s progress toward its 2030 goals announced last year.