DSWR is largely supported by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, which awarded $10 million toward this work, and matching funds from companies like Nestlé, Newtrient and Starbucks. Research sponsored by Dairy Management Inc. is funded by America's dairy farmers and importers through the national dairy checkoff program. Certain research activities are ineligible to be funded by the checkoff program, and in such instances, checkoff funding may be used solely to facilitate the funding for such activities from other public and private sources.
