The California Dairy Innovation Center (CDIC) has announced six California winners of Dairy Business Innovation Initiative grants by the Pacific Coast Coalition, the USDA-funded initiative hosted by Fresno State University supporting dairy product, process and packaging innovation. The grants are the first in the US$1.8m DBII award from the USDA that created the Pacific Coast … Read more
The technology, which involves placing a bolus into cow’s rumen and releasing a substance that counteracts the formation of methane, has received backing by the government in the form of a NZ$7.8m grant. Private investors as well as we organizations including the Akina Foundation, Agmart and the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Center have … Read more
The environmental footprints of certain foodstuffs, calculated per unit of protein produced, risk misinforming food stakeholders and consumers, the researchers claimed. Instead, the full nutritional value of foodstuffs needs to be fully considered when scientists are trying to calculate the environmental impact of producing different foods. In a study, the authors took a measure of … Read more
The partnership brings together Bel Brands’ more than 100 years of cheese-making experience and Perfect Day’s animal-free casein and whey made with microbial fermentation rather than cows to launch, this week, Nurishh Incredible Dairy Animal Free Cream Cheese Spread Alternative. “We are leveraging our unique history and expertise in cheese and partnering with Perfect Day … Read more
Its ruminant R&D team recently gathered new data to quantify the effects of its rumen-specific live yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-1077 (LEVUCELL SC), on neutral detergent fiber (NDF) degradation in a large range of forage samples in vivo. The company said it now has an unmatched database of several hundreds of samples from around the … Read more
The findings may not come as a surprise to advocates of the pasture-based system, but there is now more scientific evidence that moving cows outdoors for at least part of the year can be beneficial for milk composition and cheese yield. Italian researchers probed the milk of two groups of dairy cows to find out … Read more
The findings may not come as a surprise to advocates of the pasture-based system, but there is now more scientific evidence that moving cows outdoors for at least part of the year can be beneficial for milk composition and cheese yield. Italian researchers probed the milk of two groups of dairy cows to find out … Read more
Dutch businesses and academics – including TU Delft, DSM, VIVOLTA, and cellular meat start-up Meatable – have been awarded an Open Technology Program grant of €1 million by the NWO (the Dutch Research Council) for research into the use of protein- based biopolymers for potential food and healthcare applications, including soft tissue repair. The grant … Read more
Formed in July, the firm has already attracted the interest of Big Chocolate with Mondelēz International onboard with undisclosed seed funding. Other backers include food-focused venture capitalist, Barrel Ventures, Israeli agricultural co-op Regba Group and agri-food and medical tech VC, Trendlines. Celleste Bio’s USP utilizes cell culture to grow high quality cocoa without the plant … Read more
For dairy alternatives, SPINS US retail data shared with FoodNavigator-USA shows: Plant-based milk ($2.73bn category): Oat milk and shelf-stable coconut milk driving volume 12 weeks to October 30: $sales +10.5%, unit sales -3% 52 weeks to October 30: $sales +7.6%, unit sales -1.4% Over the latest 12-week period, all of the volume growth came … Read more