“California is the nation’s leading dairy state, providing Californians with a richness and diversity of dairy products that place it among the top dairy regions of the world. In recent times, California staked its claim to the number one state ranking when it surpassed Wisconsin in total milk production in 1993.” California dairy industry and it long history which originally started in the 1700 when the Spanish brought cattle with them into California dairy products like milk and cheese were essential to the people who were at the Franciscan missions in San Diego this was a big part of their diet. Women started producing milk and butter around 1776 at mission san Gabriel, the first cows first came in from Mexico they were better for eating …show more content…
What is known as the first branding of the industry happen in 1880, when a dairy in Point Reyes trademarked and stamped its butter to fight fake imitations being sold the 1880’s also brought along the first cheese to be advertised which would later be known as Monterey jack. Since the 1890’s food quality and safeness has always been a concern for the dairy industry they have always wanted to make sure that their product was up to par in 1891 the Dairymen’s union of California was created to progress delivery both inside and outside the state and to set value standards and scale prices. The leader of this movement was Louis Tomasini of Marin County he and his group want a state Dairy Bureau to make law against selling imitation cheese and butter, it was a very good thing that the dairy industry started to care about their products in the beginning of the 20th century the public didn’t care so much about what was being made but more about how safe the food was, So the bureau started to inspect what the dairy farms did to ensure that the food met state health …show more content…
The next year they became a part of the Riverdale Cooperative Creamery and soon they started advertising their own butter in Los Angeles under the “Challenge Butter” name. Challenge Butter is the largest-selling butter in the western United States today. The Challenge Cream and Butter Association were the first to develop a lab the tested the quality and safety of the butter they also made the first metal churn this was an idea that spread across the U.S. and is now used in most