A year ago this month, the state adopted a “dairy strategy” in an effort to build up its dairy industry. Among the recommendations of a consultant who helped develop the strategy was attracting another milk processor that could use 1-2 million pounds of the 4 million pounds of milk that dairy farmers have to ship out of the state to find markets.
Will the new Walmart milk plant coming to Fort Wayne meet that threshold?
“Easily,” said Ted McKinney, director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.
Walmart hasn't revealed how much milk it plans to process at the plant, but the clues are strong that it could soak up the equivalent of half of that surplus of 4 million pounds a day, which is more than a third of the milk the state’s cows produce.
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