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Local checkoff staffs are taking a proactive, comprehensive, integrated approach to move more milk through the Great American Milk Drive during June Dairy Month and all year long. Here are some local highlights:

Dairy farmers started the checkoff to increase demand for dairy. One population that needs it most has the hardest time getting it: the needy and hungry who must turn to food banks, where milk has traditionally been in short supply despite a high demand.

2016 is shaping up to be a challenging year for dairy farmers. With milk production both domestically and internationally on the rise, Cooperatives Working Together’s (CWT) export assistance effort is essential.

Pizza cheese – once a decades-long staple for dairy farmers’ bottom line – was showing signs of trouble in the mid-2000s after several years of continual decline.

The National Football League (NFL), USA Football, GENYOUth and Fuel Up to Play 60 are partnering to expand the Fuel Up to Play 60 NFL FLAG Essentials program.

Dairy farmers daily observe outside forces flowing into their operations and shaping what they do and what revenue floats to the surface. If armed with current information, they can funnel the impact of those forces into profit-making energy.