Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) is funded by America’s nearly 49,000 dairy farmers, as well as dairy importers. DMI and its related organizations work to increase demand for dairy through research, education and innovation. US dairy farmers provide 15 cents per hundred pounds of milk, and importers provide 7.5 cents per hundred weight equivalent to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Program. Part of those funds go to DMI for use in funding dairy promotions as well as research. The research funds are used to provide for graduate student salaries and supplies at several universities. The legislation that established DMI limits us to studies on the utilization of milk and dairy products and the creation of new products, so that the utilization of milk and dairy products may be encouraged, expanded, improved or made more acceptable. DMI also has developed consortia of industry, academia, and government agencies to leverage more funding into dairy research. Through the combination of dairy farmer/ importer contributed funds and consortia project funding, DMI and the associated state and regional check-off programs contract for a significant portion of the dairy foods research in the US