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As of 2018, the California dairy industry was the single largest milk producer in the United States with 20% of U.S. milk production [2] with milk sales of about $6.3 billion, and processed dairy products (wholesale) of about $22.2 billion.
The California Milk Processor Board was created in 1993 to counter falling sales of milk, as Americans switched to soft drinks, health drinks, and other beverages. [1] It is funded by all California milk processors and administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture .
The Dairy Council of California (formerly called California Dairy Council) was established on February 8, 1919. The organization was conceived during San Francisco Bay ferryboat commuter trips by two well-known California dairy industry leaders, Sam H. Greene and Chester Earl Gray after reading about discoveries in the field of nutrition in the early 1900s.
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A dozen more dairy herds in California have been stricken with bird flu as the virus continues to infect animals and humans around the U.S.. Nearly 700 herds in the state — or 71 percent of all ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday to combat bird flu, which has spread to more than a quarter of all the state's dairies in the last month and infected 34 state ...
In 2014, Hilmar Cheese opened a milk powder processing plant in Turlock, California. This plant is the company's second processing plant outside its Hilmar, California, facility and corporate headquarters. On April 17, 2019, Hilmar Cheese entered into an agreement with California Dairies, Inc., to sell its Turlock milk powder processing plant. [4]
Although California dairy farmers anticipated a bird flu mortality rate of less than 2%, some say between 10% and 15% of infected cattle are dying.