Got milk? Leprino Foods is thirsty for more

Leprino Foods’ expanding Greeley operations will triple the amount of milk it needs over the next two years and has some in the local dairy business wondering where all that milk will come from.

Dairy Farmers of America, the dairy marketing cooperative, is now supplying Leprino’s new Greeley plant with about 1.5 million pounds of milk a day.

It has agreed to supply 4.5 million pounds by the end of 2013 as the plant builds out, Wade Meek, DFA’s Colorado member services director, said.

But, ultimately, the plant is expected to drink up 7 million pounds of milk a day.

Will local dairy…