USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue appeared to be referencing the ultrafiltered milk issue when he stated that Canada’s dairy processing schemes were key to the future success of NAFTA negotiations. Transatlantic Milk Shake The European Court of Justice has ruled against a tofu-based maker of products, stating that per EU Regulation 1308/2013, plant-based products cannot use the terms milk, cream, butter, cheese or yogurt. By contrast, plant-based products are using these terms in the U.S. due to the lack of a dairy-specific statutory protection of identity. Additionally, the courts in the U.S. have greater confidence in the intelligence of consumers.U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson recently wrote that, “By using the term almond milk, even the...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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