Fun Fact #360 The Dairy Father

 Fun Fact #360

The Dairy Father

As the Wisconsin Dairy industry grew there was a need to get the Public aware of the new product. Thus, William Dempster Hoard created “The Dairyman’s Association" in 1872; creating a newspaper in 1885: Hoard's Dairyman which shares findings and practices from The University of Wisconsin. Thanks to these efforts, Wisconsin would become the leading place for Dairy in the world by 1915 and produce more dairy than all other U.S. States combined.

After 46 years of Dairy advocacy, a term as Wisconsin’s 16th Governor, and solving the scandal of the White House’s Fraudulent Butter by passing a law that all butter must be dyed yellow to distinguish it from Oleomargarine, William D. Hoard would die in 1918 of natural causes. Today Hoard’s Dairyman is still being produced and continues to advertise dairy, and share the secrets to farming more than 138 years later.