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The Center for Dairy Excellence Foundation of Pennsylvania has opened registration for its dairy education programs for the 2016-2017 academic school year. These free-to-use resources are available to elementary, middle and high school educators who are interested in incorporating STEM-based dairy education into their classroom curriculum.

Millennials are a critical audience for the dairy industry. These consumers (born between 1981 and 1997) have surpassed baby boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, numbering 75.4 million, according to the U.S. census.

Dairy has been a mainstay ingredient on McDonald’s menu since the quick-service restaurant’s beginning more than 60 years ago.

Land O’Lakes Inc. and its seed and crop input brand, WinField, recently partnered with Fair Oaks Farms, a 30,000-plus-cow dairy in Fair Oaks, Indiana, to build a 12,000-square-foot exhibit on the dairy’s agritourism campus.

Your staffs are working in a variety of ways to get dairy and nutrition equipment to more kids. Here are some local highlights:

The dairy promotion checkoff was started by farmers to increase sales of dairy products here and around the world. Key to that is keeping consumers and others as dairy “champions” – showing them that dairy and dairy farmers are important contributors to society.