April is National Grilled Cheese Month. Check out this fun recipe!

Dairy farmers can reuse water for many purposes, including cleaning barns, irrigating crops, and cooling milk. 

Share this fun fact with your students as they learn about the environment!

Mini Moo Virtual Dairy Tour: Soil Super Savers: Corey the Cornstalk is digging deep to see how Farmer Austin from Peace N Plenty Farm in Union Bridge, MD protects the land! Join Corey to discover how farmer Austin’s best friend isn’t just the cows—it’s the soil. Learn about cool practices like no-till farming that keep the dirt in place and why planting cover crops acts like a superhero blanket for the fields, locking in nutrients and keeping the soil happy and healthy all year long! Age group? Elementary School.

Check out this cool video from on of our Adopt a Cow Host Farms, Coulee Flats Dairy in Washington, to learn more about how cows upcycle! Read more in an article about the farm as well. Age group? Middle School.

How Dairy Farmers Go Green: Dairy farmers were going green long before it was trending, and they continue to innovate on how they can protect natural resources. From recycling water through multiple uses such as irrigating fields, cleaning barns and cooling milk to reusing sand bedding, discover six ways dairy farmers reduce, reuse and recycle. With the onset of spring, dairy farmers must find the right time to spread manure on cropland as a natural fertilizer, following federal, state and local clean water laws, so nutrients are absorbed by crops, not groundwater. 

Age group? Elementary & Middle School.

Did you know? One cow makes enough milk to fill more than 100 glasses each day.

Moo Science Coloring Sheet: Explore the scientific based concepts related to dairy farming and processing with this coloring sheet! 
Age group? 3rd to 6th grade.

Milk from Farm to You Video: Did you know that milk arrives at schools in as little as 72 hours after leaving the dairy farm? Talk about fresh and local! In fact, milk is the #1 product that schools source from local farmers. See what happens at the processing plant, where milk is bottled and transported in refrigerated trucks to a refrigerator near you. Age group? Elementary and Middle School.