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Environment

Hilmar Cheese Company is proud of our longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship. Owned by eleven local dairy families, we recognize our responsibility to the community and environment in which we live and raise our families. That commitment begins with conservation and careful management of our resources.

Hilmar Cheese Company is proud to be a member of the California Climate Action Registry and has been recognized by the Registry as a Climate Action Leader in working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Water Management

Hilmar Cheese Company reduces, reuses and recycles a variety of resources, including water. Recycled water accounts for nearly 60 percent of the water used at our facility. We also treat our process water to produce clean irrigation water daily.

Hilmar Cheese Company operates its own, on-site, state-of-the-art water reclamation plant at both facilities. The fully integrated four-stage system represents the single largest investment in water treatment made by any food processor in California. This treatment system removes nearly all of the organic components (sugar, protein and fats from milk) in our process water while achieving unprecedented reductions in salts and other natural minerals.  The Dalhart facility uses a modern pond and digester system to produce clean irrigation water.