A year after AFA Foods shut down, the former meat processing plant will open its doors again for Empire State Specialty Cheese Co. LLC.
November 8, 2013
The new facility will allow the business to process and package cheese for private labeling and expand the product lines to include a wide variety of cubed and shredded cheeses.
Carol Kitchen, senior vice president/general manager of Global Dairy Ingredients for Land O'Lakes Inc., was named Female Executive of the Year by the Women in Agribusiness National Advisory Board.
November 6, 2013
Kitchen, who has worked at Land O'Lakes for 15 years, received the award during the Women in Agribusiness Summit in Minneapolis.