From a small 5,000-square-foot plant in Springfield, Ill., solely focused on making ice cream mixes, to a large, 126,000-square-foot plant in Dubuque, Iowa, that processes nearly 40 million pounds of fluid milk a month, to the team at the Faribault, Minn., plant who earned the top prize for their handcrafted Cave Aged Rinded Swiss, Prairie Farms Dairy boasts a wide range of manufacturing operations.
The new lactose free lineup is being introduced as the “Gold Standard” for lactose-free whole & 2% milk in gallons
and cottage cheese & sour cream in 16-ounce tubs.
One of the first things Matt McClelland, CEO and executive vice president of Prairie Farms Dairy, proudly tells Dairy Foods during a visit to its Edwardsville, Ill.-based headquarters is, “I work for a bunch of dairy farmers.
Darin Copeland, Public Relations Manager at Prairie Farms Dairy in Edwardsville,Ill., joins Dairy Foods for a wide-ranging conversation on several trends impacting the dairy industry.
Year-end activities will also include a celebration of Prairie Farms' winning streak in the 2023 World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest.
October 9, 2023
Included are a consumer promotion: "85 Days of Giveaways," an anniversary edition video series
featuring Prairie Farms' dairy farmers, and many more exciting activations.
Co-op donated 85 pallets of milk, which is over 346,000 milk servings.
June 1, 2023
The
donation honors the cooperative’s dairy farm families for their essential role in providing milk and dairy
products to American families for 85 years.