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    Farm Name HyVee
    Rating (4)         
    Location West Des Moines, Iowa
    Products Fluid milk products
    Market Area IA, MN, MO, IL, KA, NE, SD
    Web Site

    HyVeeHy-Vee Health Market
    Organic Milk
    “The best milk in the country.”
    Pete Hardin, publisher of
    the Milkweed, a journal on the
    US dairy industry.

    Hy-Vee Health Market Organic Milk is a delicious reminder of what milk used to taste like. The Farmers’ All Natural Creamery, the producer of our milks, uses dairy practices aimed at bringing our customers as close to farm fresh milk as possible.

    We know our efforts to deliver the freshest milk possible are successful because we receive frequent, gushing praise from people who have tried it. Pete Hardin, editor and publisher of the Milkweed, named Hy-Vee Health Market Organic Milk the best milk in the country. He said “If more milk tasted like Hy-Vee Health Market Organic Milk we would need more cows in the country”. We hope you experience the same excitement with your first taste of Hy-Vee Health Market Organic Milk!

     

    Criteria Points Comments
    Ownership Structure 80 Employee owned corporation
    Milk Supply 70 Farmers All Natural Creamery
    Disclosure of Information for Verification 100 Full and open disclosure
    Certifier farms 100 IDALS, OC, Int., GOA
    Certifier processing 100 IDALS
    Cows on pasture time/acreage provided 95 Good pasture compliance
    Health and longevity of cows 90 Long-lived healthy cows
    Replacement animals only from organic farms 90 Only organic animals (from birth) purchased
    Antibiotics used on young cattle 100 Never
    Reproductive hormones used 100 Occasional oxytocin use
    Farm support oversight 90 All dairies and visited regularly by staff
    Outside dairy ingredients purchased 100 None
    TOTAL SCORE 1115 FOUR COWS (excellent)