Beverage, Milk [1]

Beverage

Milk

by Steven Case
Government & Heritage Library [2], 2007. Updated 2011.

Milk

The General Assembly of 1987 adopted milk as the official State Beverage. (Session Laws, 1987, c. 347 [3]).

In making milk the official state beverage, North Carolina followed 17 other states, including both South Carolina and Virginia.

The number of milk cows and milk production [4] in North Carolina declined between 2000 and 2010.

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The designation was requested by the state Milk Commission (established in 1947 [6]), and introduced by Senator Aaron W. Pryler, a Democrat from Union County [7]. It became law on June 11, 1987. At that time, North Carolina cows produced 179 million gallons of milk a year.

References and additional resources:

Agricultural Statistics: 2010 Annual Statistics Book. NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Online at http://www.ncagr.gov/stats/2010AgStat/index.htm [8]

NASS QuickStats Search Page [9] (Statistics from the USDA/National Agricultural Statistics Service).

Resources in Worldcat [10].

Associated Press. “Senator finds milk hard to swallow.” The New Bern Sun-Journal. April 30, 1987. A11.

Subjects:

State symbols [11]

Authors:

Case, Steven [12]

Childs, Mike [13]

From:

NCpedia. [14]

1 February 2000 | Case, Steven; Childs, Mike