Hi kids! This page is just for you! Have some fun while you learn about the dairy industry in Iowa and how important it is to drink enough milk. Have fun!

Links

• Milk the Cow Game
• Nutrition Explorations

• Dairy Facts
• Dairy Farming Information
• Dairy Trivia

Print and Play

  Solve the puzzles with MOO WORD SCRAMBLE (word format)

 Color BESSY THE COW (word format)

DID YOU KNOW?

• The 1st milk mustache celebrity was model Naomi Campbell
• Per capita the consumption of mozzarella cheese increased from 3lbs in 1980 to 9lbs in 2001
• The amount of calcium from 1 quart of milk is = to: 3 1/2 lbs of peas, 27 oranges, 50 tomatoes or 50 slices of whole wheat bread
• Cows spend an avg. 6 hours a day eating and an additional 8 hours ruminating or chewing their cud. Most cows chew at least 50 times per min.
• If all the ice cream consumed in 1 year was put into cones and stacked up, the tower would reach 2x as far as the moon
• It takes 10 lbs of milk to make 1 lb of cheese
• In an avg day, a dairy cow will eat 90 lbs of feed, drink a bathtub full of water and produce 5-6 gallons of milk that = 80 8oz glasses of milk!

What does a dairy cow eat?
Each year, dairy cows eat:

*Over 45 million bushels of corn
*3 million bushels of soybeans
*1.6 million tons of hay
*3.5 million tons of corn silage

Wow! That’s a lot of food!