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I thought Organic Valley was sourced locally
I just put the dairy code from my Organic Valley milk into whereismymilkfrom.com and apparently its from a dairy in Minnesota. Except that I am in Texas. I thought that the whole benefit for Organic Valley is that they try to source from local dairies. I've check different gallons before and they have come from Texas. It also seems like this one in Minnesota is a mega-dairy and not the smaller farmer owned places that OV trys to portray.
Re: I thought Organic Valley was sourced locally
My parents own a small dairy farm in WI and sell their milk to Organic Valley, I have heard my mom mention that there are a few mega farms that do sell their milk to OV. I can find out more info if you want.
And I think there are only a few distribution centers around the country, not sure that there is one in Texas. (I could be wrong though)
This is the email I got from my mom:
"this doesn't surprise me. the only dairy that i know of in MN is the ***'s and they are the up and up. they milk 400-500 cows and have bought heifers from us and they serve on the OV board. but there could be others. would have to look in their book. OV was buying milk from a 5,000 mega dairy in texas but got caught by cornucopia institute and were suppose to stop."
I edited out part of the email, in case what was written wasn't true. I also starred out the name. I don't want to get anyone into trouble.
Yeah, I discovered that when I entered the code for some half-and-half and discovered it was from Wisconsin. I live in California.
Edited because I came back to read the other responses and found a typo.
Was is Schroeder? That's were my milk is from in MN.
Nope, it wasn't Schroeder.
I emailed their customer service to find out what the dealio is. I pay $.75 more per half gallon to buy what I thought was a semi-local product. I should have just stuck with the store organic brand apparently.
I'll let you guys know what they say if they respond.
I looked up the milk I have too and it is from Schroeder. I think they bottle the milk there, I don't think it is a farm.
http://www.schroedermilk.com/contract_packaging.cfm
Well I guess it would depend on what you have locally. I mean, if there aren't OV organic dairy farms near you, they can't provide you with local dairy, right?
There are a number of them near me so mine is pretty local, its always shown as WA or OR milk when I've entered the codes. But dairy is pretty big here and so is organic and there are tons of small farms.
You may have entered the wrong code - I have a similar code to the one you posted, but it isn't the one I entered that worked. The one for me was #27-421
I entered the code on my OV sour cream and it is from Ohio - and I live in WI, where OV is located.
My mom told me that their milk is shipped to Schoeder's about 95% of the time, not sure if it goes to La Farge the other times?
There are several OV dairy farms in Texas and previous cartons have been from Texas. If they have the supply here then, why is my milk coming from far away?