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Virginia Symbols, Beverage: Milk
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Milk
Adopted in 1982.
On March 19, 2002, at Harvue Farms in Berryville, Governor Mark R. Warner signed a proclamation declaring March 17 - 23 as Agriculture Week in Virginia. After signing the official proclamation, he toasted Virginia's number one industry, agriculture, with the state's official beverage, milk. "To your health," the Governor said to the assembled crowd and to Harvue Encore Lady, handled by farm staff Scott Donnelly.
Where milk comes from and how it's made.
Ever wonder where delicious milk comes from? It all starts with healthy, well-fed cows that live on farms all around America the beautiful.
Did you know that: Milk has been proclaimed the official state beverage or drink in each of the following states
State Symbol: Milk
Arkansas | Delaware | Louisiana | Minnesota | Mississippi | Nebraska
New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Oregon | Oklahoma | Pennsylvania |South Carolina | South Dakota
| Vermont | Virginia | Wisconsin
- All cows are females (males are called bulls).
- A cow can't give milk until she's given birth to a calf.
- Cows provide 90% of the world's milk supply.
- A cow's udder can hold 25-50 pounds of milk at a time -- no wonder she's so eager to be milked -- and a cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Can You Say, "I'm Full?"
Cows are BIG eaters. Did you know that cows have four stomachs and eat 90 pounds of food a day? That's probably more than you weigh! A cow that chows on only grass can make 50 glasses of milk a day. But one that eats grass, corn and hay can make 100 glasses of milk a day!
See Moo Milk
§ 7.1-40.1. Official beverage.
Milk is hereby accepted, designated and adopted as the official beverage of this Commonwealth.
(1982, c. 191.) Commonwealth
Exerpt from § 3.1-425. Definitions.
"Milk" means the clean lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows properly fed, housed and kept; including milk that is cooled, pasteurized, standardized or otherwise processed with a view of selling it as fluid milk, cream, buttermilk (either cultured or natural buttermilk, and including cultured whole milk in its several trade forms) and skimmed milk; the term excludes the lacteal secretion of one or more dairy animals where lacteal secretion is sold or intended to be sold for any other purpose.
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