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April 8, 2023
“All dairy, all the time”™
Volume 25, No. 4
Milk usage skyrockets at West De Pere High School By Stacey Smart
stacey.s@dairystar.com
DE PERE, Wis. – Students at West De Pere High School cannot get enough of the dairy product options available at Phantom Perks café. New this school year, the grab-and-go on-site café opened September 2022. Every day, kids are lining up for hot chocolate milk, iced coffee lattes, yogurt parfaits and smoothies, which are served as part of breakfast and lunch offerings. “It was always my dream to have a coffee shop,
A deep dive into dairy From September 2022 through February, West De Pere High School used 156 gallons of milk, 54 quarts of whipping cream and 1,020 pounds of yogurt. They sold 666 hot chocolate milks, 707 smoothies and 1,209 yogurt parfaits. “We didn’t have any of this before,” Tilot said. “We only had cartons of milk. It’s nice to increase our dairy usage quite a bit by opening up this café.” Tilot transformed a cement block room centrally located between the school’s two lunchrooms into a rustic one-stop shop where students can purchase these STACEY SMART/DAIRY STAR Sherlyn Calderon (from le�), Jennifer Tilot and Miranda Uelman take a break at Phantom Perks dairy-rich products along café inside West De Pere High School March 23 in De Pere, Wisconsin. Tilot opened the café in with grab-and-go meals.
September 2022, which offers a variety of dairy-based products, including hot chocolate milk, iced coffee la�es, yogurt parfaits and smoothies.
and I was so excited when reality,” said Jennifer Tilot, “The kids absolutely love we were given the space at nutritional director for the it, and the school is going the high school to make it a West De Pere school district. through a lot more milk.”
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Ag Day at the Capitol connects farmers with legislators Panel provided insight with issue briengs By Abby Wiedmeyer abby.w@dairystar.com
MADISON, Wis. – More than 250 farmers and industry people attended Ag Day at the Capitol March 29 in Madison to hear updates on agricultural issues from the legislators themselves. Issue briefings were held in the Monona Terrace followed by a visit to the Capitol to meet legislators from their areas. Sauk County dairy farmer Randy Roecker believes in the importance of attending the event. “I think it’s important for
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More than 250 farmers and agriculturalists gathered March 29 to a�end Ag Day at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. The annual event was hosted by Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federa�on. farmers to show this unity that we go up there together and march up to the Capitol,” Roecker said. “I think it’s very important that we put farmers’ faces on these problems. I’m really glad I went.”
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation hosted the annual event. Attendees started the day with Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary Randy
Romanski who served as the event’s keynote speaker. Romanski shed light on initiatives in the 2023-25 biennial state budget that will impact agriculture including increasing trade opportunities, investments to
the processing industry and connecting the general public with agriculture. Turn to AG DAY | Page 6