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Cool site shows you where your milk is from

Where is my milk from? shows you where your dairy products were processed. I checked 2 gallons of Organic Valley milk I have in our fridge and 1 is from Sunshine Dairy Foods in Portland and the other is from a Darigold in Seattle.

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  • How cool!! I wish I had a carton of milk with me! I'll have to wait.

    Wait, how is your Organic Valley milk from Darigold? Is some of Darigold organic? I always thought it was all conventional and all became Darigold products.

    On the Organic Valley site you can read up on the member farms in your area.

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  • I tried a gallon of Organic Valley and it said the code wasn't valid. The state code was Washington, but it couldn't identify anything else. It's the code above the date, right? Mine is 4 numbers, a letter, and three more numbers. It didn't like it with or without the spaces.
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  • Its two numbers, a dash or space, and then 1-5 letters and numbers which can included a dash (according to that site). I'll look at my Organic Valley milk when I get home!
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  • imageAlisha_A:

    How cool!! I wish I had a carton of milk with me! I'll have to wait.

    Wait, how is your Organic Valley milk from Darigold? Is some of Darigold organic? I always thought it was all conventional and all became Darigold products.

    On the Organic Valley site you can read up on the member farms in your area.

    I just found this article from 1997:

    "CROPP (Coulee Region Organic Produce Pool) also goes beyond the careful processing and shipment of organic dairy products. It has developed a brand, Organic Valley, and an identity as a "family of farms," and is marketing both brand and image coast to coast with increasing success."

    "CROPP has grown from its seven founding farmers to 125. The core remains in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. But in 1995, they were joined by some Washington and Oregon members of the Seattle-based Darigold co-op. Processing also was set up through Darigold."

    The Darigold site doesn't list any organic products so they must all be sold under Organic Valley.

    I'll have to check out the Organic Valley site to see what farms are in our area.

     

  • imageAlisha_A:
    Its two numbers, a dash or space, and then 1-5 letters and numbers which can included a dash (according to that site). I'll look at my Organic Valley milk when I get home!

    My Organic Valley milk had 4 numbers to the right or under the date. 

    This milk's number would be "34 1594" and after looking it up it is from Dean NE LLC/ A Garelick Farms in New Jersey 

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  • I figured it out, I have some extra info on mine, but it's apparently not relevant. It says 5321 A 051, which it didn't like at all, but after looking closer at the website I just put in 53-21 and it told me it's from Darigold in Seattle.
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    I figured it out, I have some extra info on mine, but it's apparently not relevant. It says 5321 A 051, which it didn't like at all, but after looking closer at the website I just put in 53-21 and it told me it's from Darigold in Seattle.

    I had 5321 tooo!!! Stick out tongue Glad you figured it out.

  • imageAlisha_A:

    On the Organic Valley site you can read up on the member farms in your area.

    I had no idea!  Cool--I'm off to see what farms are in my area.

  • Well this bums me out. My OV milk is from Indiana. I guess I'll stick to Stoneyfield which is A LOT more local.
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  • And the "farm" has a corporate location...yuck. This is not why I buy OV.
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  • eeeeek I LOVE this! Mine is from sunshine dairy foods in Portland :)
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  • That's neat!  I'll have to try it out when I get home.  I buy local milk in glass bottles, so if it's from anywhere other than where the address of the farm is (Burnt Chimney, VA) I am going to be p!ssed Angry
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  • I get mine from the tank at the farm, so mine doesn't have a stamp on it but I'm pretty sure it's from the cows that are hanging out in the snow over there LOL.
  • imageWendyGR:
    I get mine from the tank at the farm, so mine doesn't have a stamp on it but I'm pretty sure it's from the cows that are hanging out in the snow over there LOL.

    so jealous!

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