"Processing Plant"
Have you ever seen our big milk tanker truck driving down the road?? Once a day it takes the milk from the farm to the processing plant. The Longmont Dairy processing plant is where the milk is prepared and put into the bottles.
When the tanker truck arrives at the processing plant, it backs into the receiving bay and pumps out those 6,000 gallons of milk into refrigerated holding tanks.
There’s no time to lose in getting that
fresh milk to your table, so the milk processing starts immediately.
The first step is to pump some of the milk
through stainless steel pipes into the cream separator. There is a really
cool pipe maze connected to this page. You can print it out and follow the
milk from the holding tank, through the maze to the separator.
In the cream separator, there are big paddles. They slowly jiggle the milk. This makes the cream separate from the milk. Next the milk with no cream ( or butterfat) is pumped to a holding tank and the cream ( butterfat) is pumped into a different holding tank.
Wow! There goes another truck! Leaving the dairy farm to go off to the processing plant!
Click on the maze to print out.
