Dairy Facts

Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.

When a fire shut down an Ohio dairy's milking parlor, 11 other dairies took in its 1,100 cows within a day and milked them for months. The farmer's daughter logged every truck that came. One driver almost stayed home. She asked his name at his truck. Today they are married, and the herd is back on the family farm.

When milkman Steve Leech spotted a gift shop ablaze on his morning round in Redruth, Cornwall, he didn't wait for the fire brigade - he grabbed 320 pints of milk from his van and doused the flames himself, saving seven neighbouring shops and the people living in flats above them. The National Dairymen's Association named him Hero Milkman of the Millennium.