Chicago

photo from Google images

As you are reading this, I am excited to inform you that I am in Chicago attending the first ever AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Training Conference.  This is a conference limited to 50 participants who were chosen to attend by submitting an application.  It's a two day conference focused on social media use for farmers.

I want to thank my sponsors, for without them I would not have been able to attend.

DMI ~ Dairy Management Incorporated for covering all of my travel expenses {thanks Jolene}

and

DFA ~ Dairy Farmers of America for covering the attendance cost of the conference {thanks Monica}

Special thanks to Michele Payn-Knoper and Marilyn & George Mertens for asking these organizations for sponsorship on my behalf.

Stay tuned!  I will try to post some previews from Chicago!

Happy Monday!

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Is The Milk You Buy Local To Your Area?

Are your dairy products local?


Now you can check to see if your dairy products are made in the state you live in with this website I came across. Where Is My Milk From?
Many times when you look at the different brands of milk in the grocery store, they appear to be different qualities of milk. Now you can enter the code on the package through Where Is My Milk From and you will see that many of the different brands come from the same plant.

For instance, our milk is picked up once a day by our Cooperative, DFA (Dairy Farmers Of America). DFA then markets the milk to a number of different processors such as, Sunnyside, Berekly Farms & LePrino Cheese. DFA also owns a cheese plant in Hughson, CA. Each processor packages the milk into their own label......many different labels, same milk.

The website is so easy to use! I checked my fridge and this is what I came up with~
Bryce's Lucerne Lactose Free milk is from a plant in Gustine, CA......


Here's the number on it - 06-446 (the first two numbers in the code is the state code, for instance in this number '06' is California.....



This Costco Kirkland milk is from a plant in Fresno, CA.....



Here's the number on it - 06-4199



This yogurt is from Fullerton, CA



Here's the number on it - 06-19

Oooh, I see that the expiration date has come and gone....bummer.



Milk is the most tested food product in the United States

This is how it happens with DFA~



Human hands never touch the milk from the time it leaves the cow until it reaches consumers. On the farm, each bulk tank of milk is tested for quality, antibiotics and bacteria levels. At the processing plant, each truckload of milk is quality checked before the milk is unloaded into storage units specially designed to maintain milk in a sterile environment at proper temperatures.



In addition to those precautions, DFA’s manufacturing operations quality check finished products (like cheese) to ensure that customers and, ultimately, consumers are receiving the freshest tasting dairy products possible.

All milk delivered to the marketplace must meet DFA’s quality standards.

Happy Wednesday!

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