For Wasatch Dairy Farmers, stewardship starts with the daily work: clean water, healthy animals, better soil, and farms built to last another generation.
A regional co-op gets to do stewardship the way regions actually work: small distances, shared infrastructure, and members who look each other in the eye at the county fair every August. These six commitments guide how we run the farms, the plant, and the trucks in between.
Keeping eleven family dairies viable for the next generation.
Pooled milk pricing, shared trucking, and co-op-owned processing mean every member farm gets scale without giving up ownership. We reinvest margin back into the farms, not out to shareholders.
Comfort, shade, and mountain air on every member farm.
Free-stall barns, sand bedding, and pasture access are standard across the co-op. Every farm is audited annually under the National Dairy FARM v4.0 animal-care program. No BST, ever.
Mountain water back to the mountain. Soil back to the field.
92% of water used in our milking parlors is recovered for irrigation. Composted manure replaces 38% of synthetic fertilizer across 14,000 acres of member farmland. Cover-crop rotation is a co-op requirement, not an incentive.
Real milk, real cultures, ingredient lists you can read.
Every gallon is processed within 90 miles of the farm it came from. We spec for foodservice performance without shortcut ingredients, additives, or fillers that don't belong in dairy.
The people who run the plant own a piece of the outcome.
Living-wage floor, full benefits from day one, and profit share for plant staff. Half of our operations leaders started on the floor or in the parlor. We hire from Heber, Midway, and Kamas first.
Wasatch County is home, not a footprint.
Milk and dairy donations to Utah Food Bank and Tabitha's Way. Ag scholarships at Wasatch High and Utah State. Open-barn days every spring. The co-op sponsors the county fair dairy show because someone has to.
We don't buy offsets and call it done. Our Climate Action Plan is built around what a small regional co-op can actually control: parlor water, methane digesters on member farms, on-farm solar, and a trucking loop that never leaves the Wasatch Front.
Every dollar of margin stays in Wasatch County until a member farm decides otherwise. That structure is what lets us commit to open-barn days, Utah Food Bank donations, ag scholarships, and a county fair dairy show that isn't going anywhere.
Our annual Stewardship Report tracks every commitment against the numbers, farm by farm. No rounding up, no cherry-picking the good years.
