Sioux Falls plant preparing to make lactose-free milk

Janelle Atyeo
May 3, 2024
May 3, 2024

Lactose free milk (5) - worked.JPG — Prairie Farms in Sioux Falls, S.D., bottles milk, orange juice, lemonade and other fruit juices.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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For the first time this month, the milk plant in Sioux Falls will be churning out a lactose free product.

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Lactose free milk (10) - worked.jpg — John Cooper, general manger of Prairie Farms in Sioux Falls, has been working with the plant for 22 years.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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Lactose free milk (14) - worked.jpg — Gallons of milk are bottled at the Prairie Farms plant in Sioux Falls.
Submitted photo

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Lactose free milk (16) - worked.jpg — Prairie Farms in Sioux Falls processes half-pint cartons of milk that are served in about 90% of the schools in its territory.
Submitted photo

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Lactose free milk (15) - worked.jpg — Half gallons of milk make their way through the bottling line at Prairie Farms in Sioux Falls.
Submitted photo

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Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.