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Safety Information
How dairy (milk) is tested and treated for safety - https://www.fao.org/dairy-production-products/products/quality-and-testing/en/
Handling and storage info - https://www.americandairy.com/health-wellness/food-safety/
Farmer Profiles
JD Country Milk
On a 134-acre farm in Russellville, Willis and Edna Schrock own and operate JD Country Milk. The family moved to Kentucky from Illinois in 1998. Ten years later, they built the first on-farm milk processing plant in the state.
They milk 31 of their own cows and also purchase milk from other dairy farms to process and bottle. Their milk is sold in glass bottles in stores like Whole Foods, Valu Market, and other stores in Kentucky, Southern Indiana, and Tennessee. In addition to selling white milk, they make and sell chocolate milk, buttermilk, drinkable yogurts, ice cream mix, butter, and eggnog. https://jdcountrymilk.com/
Wildcat Mountain Cheese
Ronnie and Clara Patton operate Wildcat Mountain Cheese in East Bernstadt, Kentucky. Ronnie is a third-generation dairy farmer carrying on the family tradition his grandfather started in the late 1930s. Clara is a self-taught cheese-maker mastering the art of farmstead cheese. They began making cheese from their cows’ milk in 2014. https://wildcatmountaincheese.com/
Chaney’s Dairy Farm
Chaney Farm began in the 1940s by the late Jim Chaney, who found his passion for farming and Jersey dairy cattle. Jim’s son, Carl, took over the dairy in the 1980s with his wife, Debra, and together they grew cows, crops, and a family. In 2003, when milk prices were very low, Carl and Debra made a decision to provide educational tours and make ice cream.
They have added a viewing room where visitors can watch a robotic milker that milks the cows whenever they want, and they also started to bottle and sell their own milk. They are now able to use their cows’ milk in their ice cream, a change that has left everyone wanting to come back for more. In 2019, they made 26,000 gallons of ice cream!