Overview
During 2019, a team of UTIA Extension specialists and researchers began a collaboration to study and evaluate small-scale dairy processing equipment and to complete a dairy sustainability project. The collaborative effort was started with seven original goals and deliverables:
- Conduct Various Farm Visits to review on-farm dairy processing equipment
- Develop List of Small-scale Dairy Processing Equipment
- Develop On-farm Dairy Processing Scenarios
- Develop Feasibility Assessment of On-farm Dairy Processing Scenarios
- Develop a Review of Current Dairy Systems in Tennessee
- Conduct Overall Market Assessment of On-Farm Dairy Processing Scenarios
- Develop and Conduct ‘Dairy Sustainability: The Farm View’ (Summary of Case Studies)
Accomplishments, Deliverables and Resources
- A Review of Small-scale Dairy Processing Equipment
- By Mark Morgan and Rob Holland
- December 2019
- Questionnaire for On-Farm Dairy Processing Visits
- By Liz Eckelkamp
- June 2020
- Virtual Value-Added Dairy Workshop
- By Liz Eckelkamp, Mark Morgan and David Hughes
- December 17, 2020 – 8:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. EST
- Flyer and Agenda
- Summary of Three Small-scale Dairy Processing Equipment Scenarios
- Mark Morgan and Rob Holland
- February 2020
- (developed for internal project use only. Not published for distribution. Contact authors for details)
- To Be Completed:
- Summary of Various Farm Visits
- David Hughes…
- Summary of “survey” conducted during Farm Visits
- Liz Eckelkamp…
- Feasibility Assessment of On-farm Dairy Processing Scenarios
- David Hughes…
- Review of Current Dairy Systems in Tennessee
- Liz Eckelkamp…
- Overall Market Assessment of On-Farm Dairy Processing Scenarios
- Kim Jensen…
- ‘Dairy Sustainability: The Farm View’ (Summary of Case Studies)
- Liz Eckelkamp, Sreedhar Upendram and Carrie Stephens…
- Summary of Extension Agent Training on ‘Dairy Sustainability: The Farm View’
- Liz Eckelkamp, Sreedhar Upendram and Carrie Stephens…
- Considerations of Time and Volume for Small-Scale Dairy Processing
- Mark Morgan
- Summary of Various Farm Visits
Additional Resources
Team Leaders
This project is supported in part by the Small Scale Dairy Processing and Dairy Sustainability Project with funding from the UT Institute of Agriculture, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Center for Profitable Agriculture