The Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) is just finishing up its twice yearly opportunity for milk producers to enrol in their donation program to Ontario food banks. Article content

It started some 25 years ago, 1995 being the best estimate of its start date (no one seems to be 100 per cent sure when it actually began). One-in-six dairy producers donates a portion of their daily production to the Ontario Milk Program. Article content

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These 500-or-so farmers annually donate 1.4 million litres of raw milk, absorbing the costs of caring for and providing for the cows who produce it.

But the generosity in the dairy industry doesn’t stop there. The milk transporters also move that milk, from farm to processor, at no charge. Then, the processors pasteurize,

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