Darigold

🛒 We're excited to announce that Darigold FIT is now available in the Midwest! 🗺️ Our delicious, high-protein, lower-sugar milk is on the shelves of more than 265 Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Find your favorite Darigold Whole, 2%, and Chocolate milk in the dairy aisle today!

A delicious collaboration three years running 🥧 🍰.   Dairy Farmers of Washington and Darigold have been partnering with The Pastry Project for three years now to share uplifting stories about the students who have walked through the bakery's doors.   This year, our friends at Dairy Farmers of Washington put a spotlight on Juanita Hernandez and her journey through The Pastry Project's free, 14-week baking and pastry job skills program.   We were proud to lend our support for the video project and happy to see our products being used to help train these future bakers.

Happy National Farmer's Day!👩🌾👨🌾 At Darigold, we know the backbone of our business are our farmer-owners, who are providing you with the freshest, highest quality and, of course, most delicious dairy products you can get. So today, let's celebrate all farmers and their contributions to our businesses, our communities, and our world. Thank you, farmers!

Water Savings in Action: Inside the Darigold and Seattle Public Utilities Partnership! 🚿 🐮 Darigold and Seattle Public Utilities are working together to create a more efficient, sustainable, and environmentally conscious way of doing business.   In 2021, we laid the ground work to get a new tank-cleaning system into our Rainier plant. One that will not only save Darigold money on cleaning costs, but also help to save one of our region's most important resources; water.    With help and backing from Seattle Public Utilities, we successfully implemented the new water saving system this year, which has seen a net reduction of 405 gallons of water used per wash, which could save the city of Seattle an estimated 3,038,400 gallons of water a year, almost 7 Olympic sized swimming pools! 🏊♀️ 🏊♂️   With help from the knowledge of various Darigold and Seattle Public Utilities employees, we documented this partnership and found out just how important water conservation is to our region and all of the life within it in the video below.

We’re excited to see our new production facility in Pasco, WA taking shape. 🥛 Once it is complete, it will employ about 200 and have the capacity to process about 8 million pounds of milk per day! 🗞 Read more in the Tri-City Herald article below.

🎉 We’re thrilled to share the winners of our prestigious third annual LegenDARI Awards! 🏆 These awards hold a special place at Darigold, as they are presented to employees who have not just met but exceeded our expectations, consistently exemplifying Darigold’s values of leadership, stewardship, perseverance, and co-op spirit. Most importantly, these award winners are nominated by their peers, teams, and managers who see them live Darigold’s values daily.   Congratulations to all 15 award winners this year!   ⭐ Excellence Award – Presented for Leading Dairy Forward Aaron Burton Alex Neild ⭐ Leadership – Team Member Sam Naffziger Earl Westhoff ⭐ Leadership – Leader Ryan Brannon Shawn Harrold ⭐ Perseverance Ken Lim ⭐ Stewardship Lauren Dingle ⭐ Stewardship – Food, Safety, Quality Fleet leadership team of Brian Harper, Greg Guise, Murray Waletich, Timothy Allen, Russ Davis, Rob Rosslow, and Gary Magreehan  Big cheers to all of you!👏 We are thrilled to be able to host the LegenDARI awards on one of our member-owners farms in Ferndale, WA, for an authentic farm-to-table experience. 🐮

At this week's Idaho Milk Processors Association (IMPA) conference in Sun Valley, we were thrilled to see some of our delicious Darigold products receiving well-deserved recognition! 🏆 President and CEO Allan Huttema and Northwest Dairy Association member-farmers and directors Tony Freeman (left) and David Silva(right) proudly represented Darigold at the conference. Darigold's products received the following awards: 🥇 First prize for whole cottage cheese. 🥉 Third prize for low-fat cottage cheese. 🥈 Second and third places for salted butter. It's no surprise to those of us who know the products well, but it's always heartwarming to see our hard work acknowledged. These awards serve as a wonderful reminder of what's at the core of our business: Collecting the milk from our member farms, making the best dairy products we can, and building value for our customers and our co-op by doing those things well. 🌟

We're thrilled to share the Belle experience across the Pacific Northwest! We started our journey in Portland, OR, and have now reached Seattle. Look for the little blue Belle coffee truck to taste our delicious real dairy creamer!

Celebrating World Milk Day and the start of June Dairy Month!🥛 Milk offers 13 essential nutrients and provides over 8 grams of complete, high-quality protein per serving! 🤩 Share with us your favorite dairy product in the comments ⬇️ 🥛Cheers to all dairy farmers, truck drivers, processors, and teams that work tirelessly to ensure nutritious and delicious dairy products get from the farm to our tables.

Join us in celebrating Earth Day and our collaboration with Seattle Public Utilities! Together, we are working hard to protect Washington's precious water sources and improve conservation efforts. Whether it is the efforts of our co-op members on the farm or the 11 production facilities that we have around the Pacific Northwest, we are fully committed to doing our part in providing a sustainable future for generations to come. 🌍💧