13 Great Dairy Plants

Who won the Plant of the Year?

These dairy processing facilities were nominated for the 2013 Plant of the Year award. All have been visited by Dairy Foods editors and were featured in the magazine in 2012 and 2013. Your votes on dairyfoods.com from May 28 to July 4 helped determine the winner. 

Plant of the year Klondike thumb
Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Wis.
(June 2013)		 Dolce Vita feature
G.S. Gelato, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
(May 2013)
Chocolate Milk
Oakhurst Dairy, Portland, Maine
(April 2013)		 Bel's WisPride cheese
Bel Brands, Little Chute, Wis.
(March 2013)
Rhino Ice cream cookies
Rhino Foods, Burlington, Vt.
(February 2013)		 Raw milk is pasteurized and homogenized here
HP Hood, Sacramento, Calif.
(January 2013)
Woman making ice cream
Safeway, Bellevue, Wash.
(October 2012)		 Dairy Products Quality Manager Jill Allen
Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Ore.
(September 2012)
Yogurt rolls off Dannon's line
The Dannon Co., Minster, Ohio
(June 2012)		 Gifford's ice cream processing equipment
Gifford's Ice Cream, Skowhegan, Maine
(May 2012)
Weigel with a carton of milk
Broadacre Dairy, Powell Station, Tenn.
(April 2012)		 Executive at Swiss Valley
Swiss Valley Farms, Luana, Iowa
(March 2012)
Emmi Roth’s facility
Emmi Roth USA, Penn Yan, N.Y.
(January 2012)		  

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