Dairy researchers look for milk-based beverages that don't need refrigeration

Dairy leaders from across the state are looking to help UW Madison research new ways to bottle and make the dairy drinks of the future. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin are contributing a million dollars worth of grant money to find a way to create dairy based beverages that don't need refrigeration. The goal of the project is to allow for multiple, smaller research projects in order to prototype the technology, and make it available to the industry once they're done.Governor Tony Evers told a dairy conference in Madison that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's share of the funding will be $750,000 ,"to establish the Beverage Innovation Center, a new center for excellence that would be housed in the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin campus."