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Careers in Dairy Science

The Dairy Science department assists students with summer internship placement as well as for permanent job opportunities. The department maintains active contacts with the dairy industry and invites companies to the department to conduct onsite interviews with students. In 2008 12 interview sessions were conducted for Dairy Science students by companies that visited the department. These interviews resulted in many job offers. The Dairy Science major maintains 100% placement with excellent starting salaries. Current starting salaries range in the region of $45,000 to $50,000 per year for students with a B.S. degree. The Dairy Science major offers numerous exciting job opportunities. A sampling of careers of alumni shows the wide range of career opportunities available in dairy science.

A sampling of companies that have recently visited the department to interview Dairy Science students

Agri-King Hilmar Cheese Company Saputo Cheese USA
Anderson-Erickson Dairy Kemps Schreiber Foods
Associated Milk Producers Inc Kraft Foods Schwan's
Braum's Dairy Land O'Lakes Sunny Fresh Foods (Cargill Kitchen Solutions)
Continental Custom Ingredients Leprino Foods Company Valley Queen Cheese Factory 
Dairigold Naturaly Iowa Wells' Dairy, Inc
Daisy Brand North Star Processing   
Davisco Foods Int'l, Inc. Pfizer Animal Health  
Ecolab Roberts Dairy  
Glanbia Foods USA Rochester Cheese  

Recent Summer Internships

Big Game Feeds Kraft Foods Sunny Fresh Foods
City View Farms La Combe Swiss Valley Farms
Dairi Lean Land O' Lakes Tornberg Dairy
DairyNet 2000 Leprino Foods Transova Genetics
Davisco Foods Intl Paullina Farmer Coop Valley Queen Cheese
First District Association Roberts Dairy VoGrin Swiss Farms
Hilmar Schreiber Foods Wells Dairy
Jackson Ice Cream Select Sires Wisconsin Holstein Association

Kemps

 Schwan's  

Dairy Career Links

AgCareers.com

Animal/Dairy Food Science Jobs

Careers in Food

Career Harvest

Dairy Careers.com

Food Industry Jobs

Internship listings at Dairy Shrine

Land O' Lakes

Schreiber Foods

 

 



South Dakota State University / Dairy Science Department
Dairy Microbiology Rm 109 / Phone: 605-688-4116
College of Agricultural and Biological Sciences