2019 Adding Value to Your Farm: Exploring On-Farm Dairy Processing

Have you thought about processing your own milk, cheese, yogurt or ice cream? How would you go about changing your business model, marketing and making your own product?This workshop features the nuts and bolts of early business planning including processing practicalities, building a farm-based dairy business, and advice from Wisconsin Farmers Union members who are making and marketing food products from cow and goat milk. Michelle Farner, Dairy Pilot Plot Manager from UW-River Falls, and Norm Monsen, a Market Development Specialist, at the State of Wisconsin will also be featured speakers. UW-Extension and Wisconsin Farmers Union have teamed up to offer this workshop.