Starting an on-farm creamery and selling local products directly to consumers at their drive-through market has given Ryan and Haylee Mensonides optimism for the future of the dairy industry while helping to create a legacy for their four sons.

Siska Reece has dreamed about having an on-farm creamery since she was 15 years old. That dream became a reality last summer when her family began bottling A2A2 whole nonhomogenized milk and cream and making ice cream with some of the milk produced on their Idaho dairy farm.

Identifying consumer trends and generating new, innovative dairy products to meet these demands provides opportunities for increased dairy consumption. Read all about these three new dairy products and how the ideas for them came about.

A community effort to bring local dairy processing to northeast Washington resulted in a stronger agricultural connection for local consumers.