Minnesota Teams Up to Get SCC Down

QUALITY COUNT$ is a statewide cooperative campaign to improve milk quality in Minnesota.

Campaign participants* include:

A & L Laboratories Associated Milk Producers, Inc. Bongards' Creameries Bou-Matic Cass-Clay Cooperative Creamery Association Dairy Farmers of America Davisco International DeLaval Ecolab Ellsworth Co-op Creamery First District Association Foremost Farms USA Land O'Lakes Minnesota Board of Animal Health

Minnesota Dairy Leaders Roundtable Minnesota Dairy Herd Improvement Association Minnesota Department of Agriculture Minnesota Farm Bureau Minnesota Milk Producers Association National Farmers Organization Plainview Milk Products Stacyville Coop Creamery Swiss Valley Farms Valley Queen Cheese Company Westfalia Surge University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Extension Service Upper Midwest Dairy Industry Association

*Known participants as of date of production.

This material was produced for the University of Minnesota QUALITY COUNT$ Seminars (July 2003). It is intended for educational use only and may not be altered in any way, but may be reproduced with permission of workshop instructors. The QUALITY COUNT$ CD may be purchased from the Department of Animal Science for $25 each. Contact Bonnie Rae at 612-624-4995 or bjrae@umn.edu.

Acknowledgments: Thanks to all QUALITY COUNT$ campaign participants, workshop instructors and program coordinators for their contributions to this project. Special thanks to Chris Buzzetta and Bonnie Rae, Department of Animal Science at the University of Minnesota, for their technical assistance in creating the QUALITY COUNT$ CD.

QUALITY COUNT$ (July 2003)

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