All posts – Dairy Innovation Program

February 27, 2025

The Dairy Runway program begins with a six-week virtual entrepreneurship course, giving participants the opportunity to hear from industry...

January 30, 2025

Entrepreneurs Carol Fitzgerald and Benita Kasbo-Perez, both Dairy Runway alumna, have each won $10,000 in WomensNet grants to support their...

October 16, 2024

Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) encourages food innovators with ideas for value-added dairy products to apply...

August 5, 2024

This month, a new cohort of dairy innovators started Dairy Runway, a free entrepreneurship program supporting early-stage ideas for value-added...

April 17, 2024

Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) invites food innovators with early-stage ideas for value-added dairy products...

April 5, 2024

Carol Fitzgerald found herself in a unique position to merge local industries when she founded Hazy Fudge, an alcohol-infused fudge company using...

February 27, 2024

The Spring 2024 cohort of Dairy Runway is concluding the program’s six-week entrepreneurship course and advancing into the Kitchen Incubator phase...

January 23, 2024

Laura Mack, the owner of an independent ice cream parlor called lu•lu Ice Cream in Vergennes, Vermont, won a $200,000 Existing Dairy Processor...

November 28, 2023

Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) is accepting applications for the second cohort of Dairy Runway, an...

November 17, 2023

Jonah Gershon, the founder of Spekld, was named the top prize winner of Cornell’s Hospitality Pitch Competition.

August 8, 2023

lu.lu Ice Cream, Oakfield Corners Cheese LLC, and Terra Firma Farm have been named winners of the inaugural Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation...

July 10, 2023

With the business development phase of the Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation Competition underway, the Dairy Innovation Program is proud to...