If you grew up on a Wisconsin Dairy Farm, you’ve definitely heard “waste not, want not” before. Using everything we’ve got is a way of life on the farm. Chad Galer from Dairy Management Inc, the National Dairy Checkoff shares more about how dairy farmer dollars are being used to fund projects looking at ways to utilize different parts of milk left over from making other dairy products.
For years many of the milk by-products that came from making various dairy products were more of a problem for the dairy industry than a positive. But with the investment of dairy farmer dollars, innovation has changed by-products into co-products. While the most obvious of these products is whey going from something that was often spread on farm fields to being a highly sought after ingredient, there are several new products coming to market that use dairy co-products.
Chad shared that while DMI does play an important role in the development of these products, Madison’s Center For Dairy Research also plays a big part in creating these new products. Partnerships between DMI and the dairy centers are where research happens to both meet domestic and foreign consumer demand as well as create new products.
While many people know Fairlife, other ultra filtered milk products are also out on the market now and that started with research and DMI. Chad also highlighted Goodsport, a electrolyte drink containing whey and an alcoholic seltzer beverage called Norwhey, as two other up and coming products.
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