From helping one dairy farmer kickstart a wholesale ice cream business and helping legislators connect with a progressive dairy farm to refreshing the conversation about risk management and helping two farms find a workforce through our apprenticeship program, the Center for Dairy Excellence is grounded in real stories, real possibilities and real results.

How about encouraging a classroom in your community to adopt a 1,500-pound dairy cow as their mascot this school year? The Discover Dairy Adopt a Cow program is an exciting, year-long experience for classrooms across the nation.

For those of us in dairy, it’s hard to imagine not knowing where your milk comes from. But as younger generations become more removed from agriculture, most kids think milk and dairy foods come from a refrigerator and have no idea the care and commitment dairy farm families and others in the value chain put into bringing them to the marketplace.