Producer

  1. Contact your milk market field representative and ask his/her cooperation in obtaining information from the Milk & Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Center.

  2. Contact the Milk & Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Center at :
    801 Shakespeare Avenue
    PO Box 497
    Stratford, IA 50249
    Phone: (515) 838-2793
    Phone: (800) 553-2479
    FAX: (515) 838-2788
    e-mail: info@dqacenter.org

  3. Briefly, you will have your dairy or dairy heifer operation scored on multiple “Indicators of Quality.”

    The “Indicators of Quality” score is totaled, and your operation earns a THREE, FOUR, or FIVE-STARSM Status for up to one year.

  4. Your annual fees will be $25 for registration and 10˘/cow in your milking string or 10˘/heifer if you are a heifer grower.

  5. Your benefits for participation are available here.