These fun ice cream facts are reprinted from www.icecream.com, a site from the company Nestle. It takes 12 lbs. of milk to make just a gallon of ice cream. Wonder how they fit it all in one carton? The U.S. enjoys an average of 48 pints of ice cream per person, per year, more than any other country. Maybe we should make ice cream the fifth food group! It takes an average of 50 licks to polish off a single-scoop ice cream cone. Challenge your family to a Lick-a-Thon, and see who finishes first! The biggest ice cream sundae in history was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1988, and weighed in at more than 24 tons. You can’t order that in an ice cream parlor! In 2003, Portland, Oregon bought more ice cream per person than any other U.S. city. Looks like everyone else has a lot of catching up to do! The ice cream cone’s invention is linked to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. An ice cream vendor reportedly didn’t have enough dishes to keep up with the demand, so he teamed up with a waffle vendor who rolled his waffles into cones! PD Be sure to visit progressivedairy.com/faceoff for more ice cream fun with our 2013 Flavor Faceoff. Follow Flavor Faceoff updates on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #PDFlavorFaceoff and from the contest sponsor, DCC Waterbeds (Dual Chamber Cow Waterbeds).

Pivotal Fencing Systems introduces the Wand Gate, which allows producers to cross-fence circular pivot fields and pastures and solves many of the problems associated with cross-fencing circular pivots.

Allan Cossentine, an employee of All West/Select Sires for 33 years, has surpassed the three-million-dose mark in semen sales and is now one of only three individuals in the U.S. to have reached this milestone. Cossentine of Hanford, California, started selling semen in 1978 with Eastern AI in Fresno, Kern and Kings counties. He started with his current employer in 1980, and has served dairy producers in Fresno, Turlock, Bakersfield and the Central Coast area and at one time worked as sales manager on the Coast and in Kern County.