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 Where
does chocolate milk come from? Not from brown cows … that’s for sure.
At least that is what the “Fresno State Chocolate Milk Investigative
Reporters Team” found out during a tour of the University Farm recently
for a story on their show, Your Valley TV. Their “expose” will air on
KSEE24 NBC on Saturday, March 10 at 5 p.m.
Led by show host Alexis, 9, a fourth grader in Clovis, the chocolate
milk team was given a tour of the University Agriculture Laboratory’s
dairy processing unit by Ag Ambassador Kristen Heath, a senior majoring
in agricultural communications at Fresno State. They also visited the
dairy on the campus farm and saw close up some of the 150 university
cows that produce Fresno State milk.
The team tells the story of how chocolate milk is made as explained by
Kristen who works in the dairy processing unit where Fresno State ice
cream also is made. “Reporters” Brianna, 7, a second grader also in
Clovis and Aria, 9, a fourth grader in Fresno, helped Alexis
“investigate” this pressing issue for young chocolate milk lovers. The
show is produced by Sabrina Hill and Gaymarie Fontana of Your Valley TV,
a local independent private organization that produces the weekly show
for KSEE.
They learned things like an average of 200 gallons of Fresno State
chocolate milk a month is produced on campus and that 10 percent of
Fresno State’s milk is internally used for processing by the campus
farm’s dairy industry into pasteurized milk, chocolate milk, cheese, ice
cream and butter. The remaining 90 percent goes to California Dairies,
Inc. for processing.
The team’s story winds up at the Fresno State Farm Market where the
chocolate milk and other student-produced products may be purchased from
9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 11
a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
“Fresno State’s Farm Market is a jewel of Central California,” Fontana
said. “We are excited about featuring it on Your Valley TV.”
The Farm Market is located on the southeast corner of Chestnut and
Barstow avenues and remains open while road construction for the Save
Mart Center is under way. Access is from Barstow Avenue. For more
information, call 559.278.4511.
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