Size Matters in the Production of Cleaner Milk (but no mention of who funded the study)

Wisconsin study: Big dairies produce cleaner milk. (Wisconsin State Journal, 9/5/2011)

Excerpt:   With buying from small, local, family-run farms becoming more popular, the results of a new study from Wisconsin could be surprising: It found that milk from big dairies is cleaner than that from small ones.

Lead researcher Steve Ingham said he did the study because he wanted to see whether there was a link between milk quality and the size of a dairy farm. He said the results cast doubt on the perception that big dairies can't matcher smaller ones in terms of quality.

"Certainly, the small-is-better blanket statement doesn't appear to be true," said Ingham, who started the study when he was a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now a food safety division administrator at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

The study is published in the August 2011 issue of the Journal of Dairy Science.

The reason I raise the point......

Excerpt: These were the key findings from a life-cycle assessment study presented by Dr. Jude Capper of Washington State University on July 13 at the Joint Association Meetings of five North American scientific societies for animal agriculture, including the American Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science.

The Journal of Dairy Science is the official publication of the American Dairy Science Association.

And in this case.....

Major funding for this research was provided by National All-Jersey Inc., representing 1,000 producer members to promote the increased production and sale of Jersey milk and milk products.