Idaho Milk Products says the expansion of its Jerome facility is underway and on track to be completed by August. With its completion will be more jobs.
A panel of Idaho officials will meet next week to consider paying $260,000 for attorney fees and other costs after losing a lawsuit over an unconstitutional law.
Small family operated dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business as large confined animal operations with thousands of animals lined up in assembly-line fashion are expanding into the organic market.
Soy and almond drinks that bill themselves as "milk" may need to consider alternative language after a top regulator suggested the agency may start cracking down on use of the term.
Idaho Milk Products said on Friday that it will invest $26 million to grow its specialized milk protein concentrate and dairy ingredients business in Jerome.
For the dairies who received notices, he told us upwards of 10,000 cows may be sold off if another buyer can't be found.
It's not that dairies are adding so much cattle, but the fact that they have been more efficient in getting milk per cow from converting feed to milk. This situation, though, could be worse without trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement.