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Challenges and Opportunities in the Dairy Industry¹

Milk Industry Foundation, Washington, D. C.

ABSTRACT

From the beginning of time, animals have been a part of man's environment. They have played an increasingly important role in his struggle to provide life's necessities. They have been, and in some parts of the world continue to be, an important means of transport and motive power. They enabled our forebears to span a continent and to link its parts together by road and railroad.

Out of this background has come an animal agriculture which is highly organized, intricate, complex, and marvelously integrated into the economic life of our nation. A most important part of this great complex is the dairy industry—an industry estimated to provide approximately 25% of the nutritive values in the American dietary and which has come to its present eminence largely as a result of the findings of science being applied to its several processes. This research continues to provide the new and extended knowledge which is one of the principal factors of the industry's continuing growth and development, while education provides the trained personnel required to operate its several parts.

¹ Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, University of Maryland, CollegePark, June, 1962.