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The Little Red Barn
Community involvement is highlighted as the cooperative owns, and loans, four soft serve ice cream machines to anyone requesting them. The Little Red Barn, a virtual billboard on wheels which frequents many public festivals, meets all requirements of the PA Department of Health for dispensing dairy products.
Allied helps sponsor Safe Halloween for young children in both the Johnstown and Altoona areas by distributing as many as 1400 cheese sticks to the trick-or-treaters, a big hit for young and old alike.
Allied partners with the 
Roof Garden Tractor Buddies of Somerset County by offering financial support in exchange for dairy promotion activities.
A partnership with Del Grosso's Amusement Park in Tipton includes many dairy promotional announcements which air over the PA system at the park during the operating season. In addition, a milk vending machine offers visitors a healthy option, with chocolate milk being the reported favorite.
In sponsoring "Taste of Home" in the Johnstown and Indiana areas, Allied Milk reaches an audience of nearly 1000 consumers with recipes and information at each show.
Special Olympics and Camp PARC are remembered with dairy snacks.
Educational programs and dairy refreshments are provided to Windber Area Kitchens, local nursing homes, and senior citizen events.
Helping Educators
Part of our work is to provide school teachers, home economics instructors, and public health nutritionists with reliable information and avenues to learn about the benefits of dairy.
Ten scholarships, worth $700 each, are offered to any PA teacher wishing to take a Penn State short course in July, for credit, called "Ag in the Classroom", which teaches children from where their food and fiber come.
Allied has financially supported Pennsylvania Farm Bureau's Mobile Agriculture Education Science Labs. The labs visit schools throughout the state, with lessons created for students in kindergarten through the eighth grade. Lab instructors use fun and hands-on experiments to help children learn about agriculture.
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In Schools
Extensive work is done in area schools as more than 25,000 two-pocket folders, with dairy messages and activities, are given to elementary students from nine counties. When requested, Allied gives financial assistance to schools that want milk vending machines.
Schools may request scoreboard assistance, with the stipulation that the board carries a milk slogan.
Schools that celebrate special dates like "Earth Day" or "Fitness Week" may request dairy related programs and/or milkshakes or cheese samples. Allied helps farm families who host school field trips with hand-outs and/or dairy refreshments.
Allied has partnered with Altoona's Forever Broadcasting to recognize a teacher of the month during the school year.
Educators are nominated by students within the broadcast area. Allied provides an ice cream party for the students of the winning teacher's classroom.
Teachers and school administrators interested in hosting a dairy education program may contact us for further information.
Getting the Word Out
Billboards:
Dairy promotion billboards are displayed throughout the state year round, often featuring our own "Mouszarella" ©. 
Radio commercials and promotions can be found on:
Forever Broadcasting, Johnstown & Altoona
WFRB, 105.3 FM, Cumberland, MD
WIOV, 105.1 FM, Camp Hill
Results Radio, Johnstown
Renda Broadcasting, Indiana
WQZS, 93.3 FM, Meyersdale
First Media Radio, Dubois
Television:
With emphasis on chocolate milk, 30 second ads can be seen on WJAC-TV (Johnstown) and WTAJ-TV (Altoona).
Print Media:
Allied features an ad each month promoting dairy through information and recipes in the Central Penn Parent publication.
Dairy information is featured on the Somerset Daily American's "Mini Page" during February (Dental Health Month, June (Dairy Month), July (Ice Cream Month...Mmmmm), and October (Cheese Month).
Special Projects have included sponsorship of the holiday series and backpage ads in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat where Allied Milk has featured timely dairy recipes and tips.
Allied is a sponsor for "Newspapers in Education", a project of the Indiana Gazette.
The Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Program
To encourage the development and use of a wider variety of dairy promotions, Allied Milk Producers' Cooperative sponsors a Special Incentive Award, open to all Pennsylvania County Princesses and Alternates. Allied will reward any county Princess/Alternate for carrying out one or more of the promotions outlined on the "Ideas for Special Promotions" sheet. The promotion must be identifiable from the idea sheets, but must be expanded or elaborated upon. Other original activities are encouraged but must be approved in advance by Allied Milk Producers.
Allied has a limited supply of hand-out items for Princess promotions. Included are: litter bags, sponges, jump ropes, pencils, crayons, coloring activity books, post-it notepads, etc.
Each year, through the state's dairy princess program, approximately 35,000 leaflets of 20 dairy recipes are distributed throughout the state. These leaflets have been developed and printed by Allied Milk for each county princess to use as a handout at her promotional functions.
Young ladies from all over Pennsylvania competed in a number of categories the weekend of September 24th, 2011, to win the honor of becoming the 55th Pennsylvania Dairy Princess.
2011-2012 Pennsylvania Dairy Princess royalty include
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Alternate Dairy Princess Deidre Bollinger (Lancaster Co.)
Pa. Dairy Princess Gabrielle Elizabeth Murphy (York Co.)
Alternate Dairy Princess Courtney Brant (Somerset Co.)