Two hours southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, on a farm carved out of the wilderness, most days you can find Scott Plagerman, Alaska’s last commercial dairyman, watching his milking robot hum away ...

About 20,000 of the reusable jugs that the Alaska Range Dairy expected to be returned haven’t made it back for refills, spurring a callout from the Delta Junction business.

To date, the industry has largely focused on packaging milk in light-blocking containers to preserve freshness, but little has been understood about how the packaging itself influences milk flavor.

PALMER, Alaska — Scott Plagerman, the owner and operator of the state’s only commercial producer of cow’s milk, knew distributing fresh milk year-round from Delta Junction was never going to ...