But have you ever thought about all of the hard work that gets that milk from the farm to you? Dairy farmers don't get to sleep in on the weekends and the cows don't wait until the presents are opened on Christmas morning. Every day, every morning and every night the cows must be fed, cared for and milked. Nutritionists work hard to calculate the perfect, balanced ration to help the cows be as healthy and productive as possible.
Feed mill workers mix and deliver the feed that was made from grains grown by still more farmers. The cows are fed, the stalls are cleaned, and the cows are milked each and every day. Decisions are made about which bulls the cows should be bred to to produce an even better generation of cows than the generation before.
Milk trucks come to collect the milk almost daily. The milk is transported to a processing facility where it is pasteurized and either bottled as fresh milk to turned into other delicious dairy products like chees, cottage cheese, ice cream, butter and more.
But did you know you can actually make milk stiff? Think about it...then check out this cool experiment on the stiffening of milk.
Interested in learning more about dairy farms? Check out these cool links:
- How are dairy cows really treated?
- Making butter in your own kitchen
- Why 3-a-Day makes for healthy kids
- Ohio Dairy Farmers even has links letting you meet Ohio dairy farmers
- Check out the Discover Dairy curriculum
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