There’s been a growing demand for organic milk during the last few years, and here at Majestic Crossing we’re all for providing people with the options they want. But we also happen to produce our milk conventionally, and we know that although organic and conventional milk use somewhat different processes, the end product is still milk, with the same nutritional value, vitamins, and minerals.
It’s great to live in a country where we have choices in the dairy aisle. But, organic is more expensive. The truth is, there are also a lot of people in this country and around the world who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. As dairy farmers, we are trying to be part of the solution to that problem by constantly improving our productivity through creativity and new technology. Our end goal is still the same: producing the highest quality milk possible. But unless we keep innovating, we won’t be able to feed the world’s population in another fifty or a hundred years.
Every farm operation is different, but we all have a common goal: to take steps – some small and some large – toward becoming a more efficient and profitable contributor to our nation’s food system and communities.
Here in the U.S. we spend just 12.8% of our income on food, one of the lowest percentages in the world. In part, that’s because our farmers produce such an abundance of food, and they do it well. Organic or conventional, farmers are always looking forward and improving how we do things. That’s the only way we’ll keep feeding our communities and our world.
