Students in Dairy Science are prepared to advance in all phases of the dairy industry, including production, allied industries/services, processing and management. Our graduates acquire hands-on training in one of the most up-to-date, state-of-the-art facilities in the world.
Dairy Science graduates find rewarding careers with many companies,
such as:
 Leprino Foods- Hilmar Cheese
- World-Wide Sires
- Golden Genes
- Monsanto
- Cargill-Nutrena
- Upjohn
- Dairyman Magazine
- Dreyers Ice Cream
- Select Sires
- California Dept. of Food & Agriculture
- Kraft Foods
Our on-campus dairy herd includes purebred Jerseys and Holsteins in a well-planned unit where feeding, milking, calf-raising and management are learned in the classroom and experienced by hands-on practice. Our Dairy Cattle Instructional Center contains the milking parlor, classrooms, a nutrition and physiology lab, a microbiology lab and a computer system running state-of-the-art dairy management applications software.
The Dairy Products Technology Center is the research, technology transfer and professional training component of our program. The Creamery is the production component. Both are fully supported by a modern processing plant for milk, cheese, ice cream, butter and other dairy products. The Creamery employs our students in both production and marketing, and Dairy Science enterprise projects provide first-hand experience with commercial dairy products.
GET IN TOUCH...
Dairy Science Department
Department Chair:
Dr. Bruce Golden
805-756-2560 Fax: 805-756-6667
e-mail:
dsci@calpoly.edu
http://dairy.calpoly.edu |
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"How do you describe a lifetime experience? That is what I had at Cal Poly, as did my sons, Patrick and Steve, and my daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband."
Doug Maddox, '57
Owner
RuAnn Dairy
"The education I received in Dairy Science Manufacturing has been the basis upon which I have built my career."
Keith A. Gomes, '85
Executive V.P. & Chief Operations Officer
California Dairies, Inc.
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