2.13.2009

Northeast Iowa Dairy Center Receives Award

The Northeast Iowa Dairy Foundation recently received the Attraction of the Year Award by the Winneshiek County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Dairy Center Facts:

  • Located south of the Northeast Iowa Community College’s Calmar campus.
  • NICC and Iowa State University partnered with the Dairy Foundation to create the center.
  • The Dairy Center displays a milking observation area, a freestall barn, an educational exhibit titled Iowa’s Dairy Story and a dairy museum that chronicles Iowa’s dairy history
  • More than 8,000 children have visited Iowa's Dairy Story

For information about Dairy Center programming, contact Kelli Boylen at 563.534.9957, ext 107.

Left to right: Brenda Balk, WCCVB director; Jed Becker, President of the Northeast Iowa Dairy Foundation; and Kelli Boylen, Northeast Iowa Dairy Foundation director.