Most milk manufactured in Wisconsin becomes cheese, but it’s also turning into white gold for dairy farmers in America’s Dairyland, because demand has never been higher and prices for it are rising at meteoric rates.
Dairy farmers squeezing white gold from cows
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Cows feed in one of the barns at the Statz Brothers Farms in Sun Prairie, which is expanding its herd size to more than 4,000 cows to meet rapidly growing demand for milk products nationally and around the world.
Zorayda Rodriguez milks cows in the milking parlor at the Statz Brothers Farms in Sun Prairie. The farm produces 200,000 pounds of milk that is trucked out daily.
On average, 400 calves are born each month at the Statz Brothers Farm in Sun Prairie, which has steadily increased its herd to 3,000 cows over the past several years.
One of the new barns at the Statz Brothers Farms in Sun Prairie that will help it expand to milk more than 4,000 cows every day.
Cows are milked throughout the day in the milking parlor at the Statz Brothers Farms in Sun Prairie.
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