Animal Care Resources You Can Use

The following information provides insights to help you improve animal care, including how people
have applied animal care practices.

Newsletters

Our Dairy Quality Center (DQC) quarterly newsletter, the DQC Update, keeps you updated, educated, and informed on:

  • Happenings at the Dairy Quality Center, the Verified Premium Plus community, and our supply chain partners.
  • The direction our supply chains are heading regarding traceability, transparency, and sustainability.
  • Consumer demands in our industry, how we can best adapt to the challenges, and how we can take advantage of the opportunities created.
  • Farm practices that can help continuously improve animal health and wellness, worker safety and wellbeing, and sustainability.

Quality Veterinarian Of The Year Award Winners

The Quality Veterinarian of the Year award has been recognized each year since 1999. The award serves to raise public awareness of the importance of bovine practitioners of animal care.

Sustainable Dairy Award Winners

The Dairy Quality Center’s Sustainable Dairy Award is based upon transparent guidelines that are verified by a licensed veterinarian utilizing the Verified Premium Plus annual pre-harvest audit.

To achieve the Sustainable Dairy Award, the dairy’s bulk tank somatic cell count must be less than 200,000 cells/ml. In addition, the dairy must score at least 90% in EACH of these six critical control areas:

  • Milk Safety, Quality, Sustainability
  • Dairy Animal Care
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Pathogen Management (animal health)
  • Personnel Management
  • Dairy Beef Safety, Quality, Sustainability
Newsletters

Newsletters

Our Dairy Quality Center (DQC) quarterly newsletter, the DQC Update, keeps you updated, educated, and informed on:

  • Happenings at the Dairy Quality Center, the Verified Premium Plus community, and our supply chain partners.
  • The direction our supply chains are heading regarding traceability, transparency, and sustainability.
  • Consumer demands in our industry, how we can best adapt to the challenges, and how we can take advantage of the opportunities created.
  • Farm practices that can help continuously improve animal health and wellness, worker safety and wellbeing, and sustainability.
Veterinarian Of The Year

Quality Veterinarian Of The Year Award Winners

The Quality Veterinarian of the Year award has been recognized each year since 1999. The award serves to raise public awareness of the importance of bovine practitioners of animal care.

Sustainable Dairy Awards

Sustainable Dairy Award Winners

The Dairy Quality Center’s Sustainable Dairy Award is based upon transparent guidelines that are verified by a licensed veterinarian utilizing the Verified Premium Plus annual pre-harvest audit.

To achieve the Sustainable Dairy Award, the dairy’s bulk tank somatic cell count must be less than 200,000 cells/ml. In addition, the dairy must score at least 90% in EACH of these six critical control areas:

  • Milk Safety, Quality, Sustainability
  • Dairy Animal Care
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Pathogen Management (animal health)
  • Personnel Management
  • Dairy Beef Safety, Quality, Sustainability