From the farm...Prairieland Dairy milks 1360 cows three time per day. After the cows are milked, all the milk is cooled down to around 35oF and collected into two sanitary milk tanker trailers. When a trailer gets full, it is taken to our processing facility in Hallam, NE. When the trailer of 6,000 gallons arrives, it is pumped directly off the trailer and is seperated. This separator separates the cream from the skim. After being separated we add vitamins to the milk and add cream back to the skim to make your 1%, 2%, and whole. Upon getting the milk to the correct fat level, we pasteurize and homogenize it, this consist of heating it up to 180oF for thirty seconds to kill bacteria in milk that causes a short shelf life. Milk continues to the homogenize, this is where all the fat globules get broken up into tiny pieces so that your milk doesn't separate, it then gets cooled back down to 32oF. After this step, milk gets put into the milk jug. It then gets taken to a cooler where it awaits to be taken to your local grocery store. After arriving to the store, our milk gets put on the shelf, then to your car and on its way to a nice, cozy refrigerator.
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