(NAFB.com) – Dairy Management, Inc. is positioning itself as a strategic innovation partner and resource to the nearly 70,000 entrepreneurs, investors, brands, and retailers who will attend the Natural Products Expo West. The event is March 3-6 in Anaheim, California. Expo West is the largest trade show of its kind in North America for the consumer-packaged goods and natural products industry. This will be the third straight year DMI will be at the event, with the checkoff seeking to demonstrate how dairy can fuel breakthrough product concepts and how innovators can tap into its resources to accelerate speed to market. “We’re at Expo West to show entrepreneurs and innovators what’s possible with dairy and how the checkoff’s support and research network can help them bring ideas to life,” said Maria Buerk, executive vice president of innovation for DMI. Headlining DMI’s presence at its booth is a new concept: cottage cheese ice cream.