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Home » Where is my milk from?

Where is my milk from?

By Marybeth Feutz 5 Comments

Have you ever wondered where the milk you bought in the grocery store came from? Did you know that it’s really easy to find out?

Most dairy products have a plant code stamped right on the container, or printed on the label somewhere. This is a gallon of skim milk from IGA. This milk has an IGA label, not a brand label.

IGA skim milk plant code

The plant code on this gallon of milk is 17-255. I went to the website Where Is My Milk From? and entered my code.

This gallon of milk is from the Prairie Farms Dairy in Olney, Illinois. Olney is only 60 miles away from Princeton!

So what about this sour cream from WalMart? The plant code here is 17-214.

WalMart sour cream plant code

The Great Value brand sour cream is also from a Prairie Farms Dairy, but this one is in Carbondale, Illinois. Carbondale is a little farther away from me, about 120 miles, but still pretty close!

This is my new favorite thing… Greek yogurt from Yoplait. Yum! The plant code on the yogurt is 55-53.

Yoplait Greek yogurt plant code

This yogurt is from Schreiber Foods in Richland Center, WI. Richland Center is 475 miles away, so it’s getting a bit farther, but it’s still only 2 states away!

Look for the plant code on your milk. It will always start with a 2-digit number (like 17, or 55 on my containers). The plant code usually (but not always) has a hyphen, and then a 2 to 5 digit number after the hyphen. Where Is My Milk From? has some other tips on how to find your code.

Enter the code from your milk (or whatever dairy product you have handy) into the Where Is My Milk From? website. Let me know where your milk is from, and how close it is to you!

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Comments

  1. Aleta Crowe says

    06/12/2012 at 6:52 am

    My 1% milk came from Praire Farms, Oloney Il. A little over an hour away. And my Yoplait came from Reed City MI. Which is just a state away. Great site!

  2. Marybeth says

    06/12/2012 at 9:07 am

    It sounds like our milk came from the same place! Thanks for sharing, Aleta.

  3. Will Flannigan says

    06/13/2012 at 10:48 am

    That’s really interesting!

    I’ll have to try it when I get home for my daily, after work, snack of cereal!

  4. samantha says

    09/12/2012 at 11:33 pm

    Mine came from United Dairy in Uniontown, Pa..a little over an hour away from me. This is pretty awesome..

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