GIANT Food Stores, based in Carlisle, Pa. is the first national retailer to qualify its store brand milk as PA Preferred™, meaning 100 percent of the milk is produced in Pennsylvania.
“By offering PA Preferred milk, GIANT is helping support farmers and area businesses that produce quality products, while making investments in local economies and keeping Pennsylvania growing,” Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley said during the milk’s launch at GIANT Food Store in Harrisburg.
PA Preferred™ is the official brand of agriculture products made or grown in Pennsylvania. The program’s trademark is a gold checkmark inside a blue keystone that can be found on products year-round at farmers markets, restaurants, food
processors, grocery chains, craft breweries and wineries.
The GIANT brand PA Preferred™ milk is available in whole, 2 percent, 1 percent and skim in gallon and quart sizes. The milk is available at 156 retail locations in Pennsylvania and 44 locations in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
“Pennsylvania milk comes from a good place,” said Harold Shaulis, a dairy farmer and chair of the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program. “When you drink this milk, you know it was produced by farmers who care for their cows and care about producing healthy, nutritious dairy foods for our friends and neighbors to enjoy.”