Milk Factoids Factoid #1 Despite the recent news headlines of food cost increases, Americans still spend less than 10% of their disposable income on all food, and even a much smaller 5.7% for food eaten at home. Increased efficiencies from farmers are the primary reason for this fact. Percent of income spent on food in— All dairy products are just 6.4% (half the cost of meat) of the average American’s home food bill (about 3/10 of 1%). Dairy continues to be one of the best nutritional values for your money.
Do you realize that it is actually more efficient for LDF Dairy delivery trucks to bring milk to you than for you to make multiple trips to the store? Each Longmont Dairy delivery truck delivers to over 100 households per night. Just think how often you or your neighbors make a special run to the store for milk, and use different vehicles for your individual trips! In theory, one delivery truck could actually save over 100 individual milk-runs to the market. Home delivered milk saves you gas dollars and also gives you more time for the things you want to do. It just makes good environmental sense.
Did you know that locally produced food is the better choice? Food tastes best when it is fresh, not to mention the preservation of nutritional value that comes from consuming products soon after harvest or production. The simple fact is, when you buy local, you know where your food is coming from. As direct providers, we answer directly to you – not a middle man. When the cows that produce your dairy products live nearby, you are providing your family with the best product available. The time from our dairy to your table is short, making the product you receive fresh, safe, tasty, and packed with nutrition. Buying local dairy products just makes good sense.
Glass bottles are one way that we provide value to our customers. Our customers tell us that milk in glass bottles just tastes better. When you like a product you will consume more of it. Strong bones and teeth, along with all of the other great benefits from calcium and protein provide an excellent value for your grocery budget. Additionally, by buying glass in returnable glass bottles, instead of plastic, you are doing your part to help our environment – one of our most valuable resources. Glass bottles just make sense.
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Factoid #6 Dollar-for-dollar you cannot beat the value for low-cost, high-quality protein, especially when you consider that only 1 cup of milk provides 16.3% of the daily recommended amount of protein. Protein is important because it is necessary to sustaining life, because our bodies are built on protein. For example, one glass (8 oz.) of Longmont Dairy Farm milk
Reusable glass bottles are the 1st Best environmental solution today. Everyone seems to be trying to do their very best to recycle. Surprisingly, did you know that recycling actually isn’t the best answer to solving our serious solid-waste problems? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) lists reuse as the first-best environmentally responsible solution to waste management, and recycling as only the second-best waste management solution. A study conducted for the National Association for PET container Resources “tells how one refillable glass bottle, used as few as only eight times, consumes less energy than any other container including recycled containers, and produces the least amount of water-born waste and fewest atmospheric emissions of all container types. Using glass bottles just makes sense.
Are you D-prived? According to the American Diabetes Association, 23.6 million Americans now have diabetes. Research conducted at Tufts University indicates a link between type 2 Diabetes (the most common form) and calcium and vitamin D deficiencies. The study concludes that drinking more milk could help reduce type 2 diabetes by nearly 15%. Researchers state that chronically low levels of vitamin D were connected to a risk of up to 46% more cases of adult onset diabetes. The research suggests that a combination of vitamin D and calcium may have the greatest potential in helping to prevent diabetes. In fact, they discovered almost “a 15% lower risk for type 2 diabetes among individuals with the highest dairy intake (3-5 servings per day, compared to those getting less than 1½ servings each day.” To learn more, visit www.diabetes.org and www.WhyMilk.com.
Fat Facts Lowfat milk is only 2% fat - this is the percent of fat by weight that the milk contains. This is actually is a very small percentage of calories from fat, considering that a cup supplies: 14.8% of your daily requirement of vitamin B12; 23.5% riboflavin; 19.3% of protein; 12.2% of Vitamin K; 24.4% of Vitamin D; 29.7% of Calcium, and 23.2% of phosphorus. There is a lot of value in just one glass! Colorado Proud! Colorado agriculture contributes $16 billion to the state’s economy each year,” according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture's website. Colorado Proud provides Coloradans with the assurance of local products. Longmont Dairy takes pride in being affiliated with the Colorado.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently updated the recommended vitamin D requirement guidelines and now recommends supplemental D of 400 I.U. for infants, children, and teens. Breast milk contains only minimal amounts of vitamin D, making this an important factor for families to consider. Lack of vitamin D is also linked to Parkinson’s disease, heart attacks (especially in men), and diabetes. Drinking an extra glass of milk each day is an easy way to begin to take protective action – for both children and adults. Data and information in this article sources are LiveScience.com and FindingDulcinea.com.
We did the math and the facts are amazing. Longmont Dairy Farm has been in business for over two decades. In this time-frame (based on the average number of customers we have had over the entire period of time), we have delivered about 20,000 gallons of milk every week. When this number is multiplied by 52 weeks in a year, we discovered that comes to 1,040,000 gallons of milk each year. Multiply that by 22 years, for a grand total of 22,880,000 gallon plastic milk bottles that have not been dumped into our beautiful state's landfill!
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