Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Yes. Even as food supply chains have become longer and more complicated, the majority of milk and dairy products in our region are sourced from family farms in New England or Eastern New York.
While some dairy farms in our region bottle and sell their own milk directly, the majority of family farms belong to a co-op and have their milk picked up daily or every other day and it’s sent to a nearby processor. There, it is pooled together with milk from other dairy farms in the region and is pasteurized. The milk is then packaged and distributed for stores, schools, and other businesses as fluid milk or is turned into other dairy products we love like cheese, butter, ice cream, and yogurt.