The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) is starting this New Year of the Dragon by organizing a Global Dairy Market Outlook Webinar to share the latest data and trade forecast. The 90-minute webinar will be aired on March 15, 2024 at 10 am China Standard Time (which is U.S. March 14, 10 p.m. EDT).

USDEC is organizing a Dairy Innovation and Outlook Webinar Series which will feature two, one-hour, sessions. The first session (Dec. 7) will feature the 2023 innovation work conducted by the team at Jiangnan University plus winning products from the 5th Annual Student Innovation Competition organized under the USDEC-JU partnership. The second session (Dec.19) will feature Donna Berry, Owner of Dairy & Food Communications, to share real commercial examples of dairy-protein-fortified foods across multiple mainstream product categories; and, William Loux, vice president, Global Economic Affairs, U.S. Dairy Export Council to discuss what lies ahead for global dairy markets in 2024 and the production outlook for U.S. dairy ingredients.

USDEC is collaborating with the China Association of Bakery and Confectionary Industry (CABCI) and Jiangnan University to hold a half-day bakery seminar Nov. 17 in Shanghai. The workshop will focus on demonstrating the uses and benefits of dairy permeates in bakery applications and include presentations of the opportunities and benefits that milk and whey permeate provide in bakery applications, from cost savings to improving the outcome of the final product.

USDEC will host a half-day seminar during the upcoming Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology's (CIFST's) 20th Annual Meeting in Changsha, Hunan Province. The two-day CIFST meeting takes place Oct. 24-25, with the half-day USDEC workshop, "The Power of Dairy for a Healthier and Better Life," slated for the morning of Oct. 25.

Dairy ingredient innovation shines at 5th Annual JU Student New Product Competition.