Sioux City, Iowa — The Food Bank of Siouxland now has the second half of a large donation of milk from Kemp’s Dairy and Hy-Vee.
Food bank executive director, Jacob Wanderscheid, says the shelf stable milk is chocolate milk.
The food bank and the two businesses have teamed up for the annual great American milk drive the past two years. Wanderscheid says the 49-thousand units of milk come as they enter their busiest time.
Milk has a short shelf life and that makes it a high demand item for the agencies the food bank serves. The Dairy Farmers of America developed the shelf stable milk. Jay Johnson is Kemp’s sales director in Le Mars where the shelf stable milk was first used.
The Food Bank of Siouxland will split the milk between the backpack program for two-thousand school kids, and the food they send to their agencies. They serve several northwest Iowa counties.
