Washington State Dairy Council

Washington State Dairy Council updated their website address.

Hey Fuel Up to Play 60 Schools, don't forget to complete Washington Plays 3 – 5 by March 31st for a chance to win a Blitz assembly for your school.

AND in January- report a challenge on your dashboard for a chance to win a student prize pack! https://nutrition.eatsmart.org/pages/2018-2019-fuel-up-to-play-60

Ice cold milk is the best!

Anyone remember when you could treat yourself to a cold refreshing cup of milk from a vending machine? 🥛 Only 10 cents a glass!

Students drink more milk when it’s served HOT! Learn how one Washington school used Start Strong to serve 5 times more healthy breakfasts to their students. https://wadairy.org/hot-chocolate-milk/

We're kicking off this Fall with a very special FLAG-in-Schools contest! From November 5-16, you can enter to win a $200 gift-card to the Fuel Up to Play 60 store or a visit from an NFL player!
Here's how to enter:
1. Take a video (no longer than 1 minute) or photo of your team using your NFL FLAG kit and post it on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
2. Tag GENYOUth and Fuel Up To Play 60 and use hashtags

Students in Selah School District pledged to Fuel Up to Play 60 for the year in style today. Congratulations! We look forward to big things.

Blitz the Seahawk

Planning on dining during SeattleRestaurantWeek? Consider donating to Food Lifeline so those in your community can also have access to nutritious foods, like vegetables, fruit and local dairy.

Donate at foodlifeline.org/srw

Seattle Restaurant Week Donations Seattle Restaurant Week is a celebration of fresh local food. When you donate to Food Lifeline, people struggling with hunger in your community can also have access to nutritious foods like vegetables, fruit, and local dairy. In fact, with every dollar you give, Food Lifeline can provide the equival...

Washington State Dairy Council added a Shop on Website button to their Page.

Happy National Farmer's Day! Thanks for your dedication to your cows, the land, and our communities.

National Farmer's Day Celebrate National Farmer's Day with stories from young farmers around Washington.

With the new breakfast cart our friends at Chelan Fresh helped provide, twice as many Edmonds School District students are starting their day off right with fresh, local dairy and fruit. Thanks, Blitz the Seahawk for helping us kick off the day!

We're celebrating from CenturyLink Field at the 2018 Program Advisor Training with Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Over 60 health and PE teachers across the state came to learn about how to inspire their students to fuel up with healthy foods and play for 60 minutes every day.

Happy ! Milk is a great source of calcium, vitamin D and potassium—perfect for growing students. We’re so excited, we’ve decided to celebrate for the whole school year. Share your Washington school milk photos with and learn more about milk in school lunch at https://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/content/2015/school-milk-report

Happy birthday and happy Blue Friday, Doug Baldwin! Celebrate Doug by picking up a Growth Poster at https://eatsmart.org/collections/fuel-up-to-play-60/products/growth-poster.

Doug Baldwin Growth Poster Encourage your students to be their best every day by posting this Doug Baldwin stature poster. Hang this 6 foot poster 6 inches from the ground, and let your students check on their growth in your gym or classroom. Measures to 6’ 5”. Size 6’ x 3’. Folded.

Start planning your Fuel Up to Play 60 Kickoff to "Get in the Game" and a chance to win a FUTP60 Prize Pack for your school-- now through October 31st. More details at: https://nutrition.eatsmart.org/pages/2018-2019-fuel-up-to-play-60

https://youtu.be/bL3gZuBUClA

2018 FUTP 60 Kickoff Video Back to school means time for FUTP 60 Kickoff - with all new fun and easy ways to celebrate. FUTP 60 Kickoff is back for another fun-packed fall! Time to hud...

6 ways cheese can help your bones... and teeth, and muscles, and blood, and nervous system and metabolism. Your taste buds will also thank you. Try some local cheeses at the Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival this Saturday at the Seattle Design Center.

High School Athletes Refuel with Chocolate Milk This is "High School Athletes Refuel with Chocolate Milk" by Dairy Farmers of Washington on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…

Don't forget to register for the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor Training September 27th at CenturyLink in Seattle. https://nutrition.eatsmart.org/pages/fuel-up-to-play-60

The Fresh Milk Poster is now available in Spanish and English! Get yours now at https://eatsmart.org/collections/spanish-materials/products/fresh-milk-brochure-1

Registration is Live! Sign up for the 2018 Program Advisor Training at CenturyLink Field September 27th! https://bit.ly/2MTmTlT

Thank you for all the kind words about Anna and Michael.
For those of you looking to support the Teachman Family during this incredibly difficult time, there has been a Gofundme page created in honor of Anna and her father, Michael.

Click here to support Memoriam for Mike and Anna Teachman organized by Fundraising Team Mike Teachman and his daughter, Anna, were in a tragic vehicle accident on Sunday night, July 8, at 7:00 p.m. in Mannford, Oklahoma. The family, Mike, Lori, Anna and Kara had enjoyed a family vacation traveling down through California and up Route 66 to bring Anna to registration and orientation...

The Washington dairy community is heartbroken and truly saddened by the sudden loss of the 2017-18 Washington State Dairy Ambassador, Anna Teachman and her father, Michael Teachman of SeaTac, Washington.

Anna was an incredible person who made a difference to everyone she met. She will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this difficult time.

In Memoriam of Anna Teachman - {“field_59a597afd1ab0”:[{“acf_fc_layout”:”article_intro”,”field_59a597c0d1ab1″:” The Washington dairy community is heartbroken and truly saddened by the sudden loss of the 2017-18 Washington State Dairy Ambassador, Anna Teachman and her father, Michael Teachman of SeaTac, Washingto...

Do you have an innovative and delicious smoothie recipe? Share it with National Dairy Council for the Let's Put the "Moo" back in Smoothie contest!

Let's Put the "Moo" Back in Smoothie | Food & Nutrition | Test Kitchen This month, we’re changing it up! Instead of just making a recipe, readers can tap their imaginations and create their own based on simple criteria.

“One of my favorite things about cheese is that you take relatively the same ingredients and you can make hundreds of different kinds of cheeses that have completely different flavor profiles. And all of that is achieved by, for example, how much pressure is put on the curd when it's forming in the wheel/block, how much time that it's in the brine tank, how long it's aging and what temperature it's aging at, what step in the process the salt is introduced, and how the curds are manipulated by heat or movement. It just all starts with milk, a bacteria culture, and rennet. Salt may be introduced at some point, depending on the cheese. With cheddar, we chop up the curd and mix the salt in by hand; with Gouda or Parmesan, salt is added through brine tank so it kind of gets the salt through osmosis. So, it's incredible to me how you can start with those same four ingredients as Parmesan or Cheddar, and you have a cheese that turn out like Swiss. And Swiss is unique just because it has an extra bacteria added and it's been incubated for 7 to 10 to 15 days (however long for the “eye” formation – the iconic Swiss cheese holes) at 70 degrees and then you get that whole sweetness profile that comes from that. Then you have a pretty salty young Gouda, that as it gets older, say nine months to a year, gets this sweet crystallization. So I think it's just incredible how, just through the science of manipulating these few factors, you get so many different varieties and flavors.” -Marlies Gill, owner, Appel Farms Cheese

A big congratulations to Abigail Zurcher, the 2018-19 Washington State Dairy Ambassador! Another congratulations to Rebecca Ford of Lewis County and Cobi Van Slageren of Yakima Valley who are the State Alternates.

We can't wait to work with you all this year!

"It is a business but it's also a passion. I mean nothing, nothing makes me happier than just being with the cows. I just love being with the cows. They just, they have an unconditional love. And as long as you take care of them they take care of you. It’s something about the world that we live in anymore - it's so hard to find [that unconditional love]. I mean yes, you've got your family, you've got your children but there's frustrations that we all have with all of them. But with the calves and cows - it's just such a genuine love and passion that I have when I come out to the barn to work. So nothing makes me crazier than when people accuse us of abusing them and not taking care of them - you know? We give them the best life we possibly can. All we want to do is provide a good nutritious product for the consumer and I can't think of a better way to do it than being a dairy farmer. So I can proudly say I am a dairy farmer. It's hard for me to say that we're earning a living because it's really just a passion. So yeah, I love being a farmer…maybe not in February when it's pouring rain sideways but I know that there's a July coming - I know the good is coming . I really couldn't see myself doing anything else but being a dairy farmer." - Michelle Schilter, Dairy Farmer, Chehalis, WA

“We’re out here regardless of the weather doing all we can to keep our cows comfortable,” he said. “We’ll put in as many hours as we need to make sure they have food, water, and their pens clean. We do everything we possibly can to keep them comfortable and healthy.”

Born to Dairy - Washington Dairy {“field_59a597afd1ab0”:[{“acf_fc_layout”:”article_intro”,”field_59a597c0d1ab1″:” 21 year old junior at Dordt College looks toward his senior year of school with excitement to return to the family dairy. rnFarming comes naturally to Alex Prins. As he walks the long line checking cow...

What an udderly beautiful day at the locks! A huge thanks to Darigold and Smith Brothers Farms for donating product today!

We’re celebrating in a BIG way today because Washington Dairy is a big deal. Happy June Dairy Month!

“In order for us to be successful in the long term, our practices have to be sustainable,” he emphasizes. “We are committed to that sustainability because I’m 28, I have a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old, and we need to be here a long time. We need to take care of our land, we need to take care of our cows, our employees -- we have to make sustainable decisions if we want to stay in business.” -Austin Allred, Royal Dairy

This Farmer Turns Manure Into Clean Water and It May Be the Future of Farming Wait, COWS are making farming greener?

“Whether I am wearing my barn boots or my tiara and banner, I love sharing about dairy farming with every group of students, adults and seniors I meet.” - Anna Teachman

Our Washington State Dairy Ambassador answers the most popular dairy questions she encounters.

Dairy 101 from Your State Ambassador - Washington Dairy {“field_59a597afd1ab0”:[{“acf_fc_layout”:”article_intro”,”field_59a597c0d1ab1″:” Do you have questions about dairy? Youu2019re not alone. rnHi everyone! Iu2019m Anna, the Washington State Dairy Ambassador. I travel throughout our beautiful state speaking to community groups, teachi...

"Growing up with kids here on the farm we know exactly how the milk gets from the cow to the table. The cows are our kids on this farm too. We always know what's going on with the cows: they're fed a healthy diet, the milk is natural - there's nothing added to it. It's healthy. Our daughters grew up on the dairy and the great bonus is they drink milk, eat butter, cottage cheese, and yogurt. What's great, they tell their friends "hey have you tried this?" or if they haven't they tell them "you should try this dairy product." I am really proud to have had my girls grow up on the dairy and eat dairy products especially since we know it's a great product. We're proud of our cows and our farm. It's a good thing!"
Heather Zurcher, Dairy Farmer, Basin City, WA