The Dairy Alliance's Will McWhirter has been traveling throughout Georgia to conduct back-to-school trainings and presentations on a variety of dairy-focused topics with school nutrition programs from Bibb, Stephens, Franklin, White, and Richmond Counties, as well as a large regional meeting of school districts in southwest Georgia including Dougherty, Tift, Brooks, Colquitt, Seminole, Crisp, Worth counties, and more. Topics of proper food safety with dairy, keeping milk cold for students, successful innovative dairy programs in schools, and hands-on Moo Brew iced coffee made with milk trainings were conducted and discussed. Overall reach was estimated at around 540 people involved in school nutrition programs.
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