Milk

Delicous Milk

There’s nothing better than an ice cold glass of milk with your cookies! We, at Willow Bend Farm, Spring Hope Dairy and Bonna Terra Farm, love our refreshing milk and chewy cookies as much as anyone. So, we make sure our milk is the best quality it can be. Month after month, we receive “quality bonuses” from our local Upstate-Niagara Milk Co-Op. Year after year, we receive “Dairy of Distinction” awards. These awards have become commonplace for us due to the many steps that are taken daily at the farms and beyond. A structured routine, processes and repeated testing assures that the cleanest, safest methods are used; and only the most delicious and wholesome milk makes it to your table…and ours…for our favorite afternoon snack!

WHOLESOME MILK— NATURES NEARLY PERFECT FOOD!

Every day our natural, wholesome, milk is shipped to Upstate to be pasteurized and bottled so it is available for you at your schools, stores and restaurants.

MILK – A Delicious Powerhouse of Nutrition

A Good Gallon Gives:

1 Gallon of milk = 8.6 pounds of milk

1 Gallon of milk = .87 Gallons of water

1 Gallon of milk = 16 glasses of milk

1 Gallon of milk = 1/10th of what 1 cow can produce in a day

1 Gallon of whole milk = 1 pound of cheese

Where Our Milk Goes

Willow Bend Farm is very proud to sell our milk to Upstate Niagara Milk Co-operative. Upstate Niagara is a local Western New York (WNY) milk co-operative owned by 350 WNY dairy farmers. WNY is noted for high quality milk products as well as for serving our local communities. Our fluid milk is sold in the two major grocery store chains of the area, Wegman’s and Tops, where it can be found under their store brand labels. Our milk is also sold under our own “Upstate Farms” label, and can be found in most of the local convenience stores and chain stores and in Walmart as well.

Please enjoy this video telling of our passion for dairy farming and of the Upstate Niagara co-op that serves us so well. Please look for the Upstate Niagara label for our high quality milk products. If you have any questions or comments concerning our Upstate Niagara Milk Co-op please contact our co-op at 1-800-835-8423.

Our world famous yogurt is distributed to all the United States as well as on airlines to Alaska, South Africa, and New Zealand. Our cottage cheese, sour cream, and cheese dips are also very popular in our area stores. Our soft ice cream mix is wholesaled all over the east coast.

Our Upstate Niagara Co-op is the major owner of O-AT-KA Milk Products Co-op in Batavia, NY. O-AT-KA is a balancing plant where our surplus perishable milk is converted into canned evaporated milk, butter and milk powder which can be stored and shipped long distances. Most of our evaporated milk goes to Puerto Rico and Mexico. Our butter and powder is shipped all over the U. S. as well as to world markets.

To learn more about the excellent job Upstate Niagara Milk Co-op does in marketing our high quality milk please go to Upstate’s website here: http://www.upstateniagara.com/

Why is Milk Good For you, you ask?

MILK – a Good Glass Gives

1 Glass of milk = 30% RDV (Relative Daily Value) of Calcium = strong bones & teeth

1 Glass of milk = 11% Potassium = good blood pressure

1 Glass of milk = 20% Phosporus = strong bones

1 Glass of milk = 16% Protein = strong muscles

1 Glass of milk = 10% Vitamin A = good vision & skin

1 Glass of milk = 25% Vitamin D = strong bones & teeth

1 Glass of milk = 13% Vitamin B12 = good quantity of red blood cells

1 Glass of milk = 24% Riboflavin = good conversion of food into energy

1 Glass of milk = 10% Niacin = good functioning enzymes

In other words…

1 Glass of milk

(or 1 serving of a delicious dairy product)

3 times each day = 1 HEALTHY BODY


For more nutrition and meal planning check out choosemyplate.gov/dairy

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