Dairy terms that every dairy person should know

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• Bossy cart, a cart for holding, shipping and displaying gallon containers of milk, usually holds about 80 one gallon containers.  See picture at http://www.martforcarts.com/carts/4.html
• Bulk Tank The farm milk collection tank which is used to hold or sometimes to hold and cool milk until the hauler picks it up.  It is refrigerated and may be paired with a supplemental heat exchanger system to cool milk prior to entering the tank.  The bulk tank is equipped with agitation and, in most cases, a recording thermometer. Tank
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• CIP-Cleaned in Place The cleaning and sanitization of pipelines other equipment by circulating cleaning and sanitizing solutions through the equipment
• Constant level tank, sometimes called balance tank, surge tank, "The balance, or constant level tank provides a constant supply of milk. It is equipped with a float valve assembly or other devices which control the liquid level nearly constant ensuring uniform head pressure on the product leaving the tank. The overflow level must always be below the level of lowest milk passage in regenerator. It, therefore, helps to maintain a higher pressure on the pasteurized side of the heat exchanger. The balance tank also prevents air from entering the pasteurizer by placing the top of the outlet pipe lower than the lowest point in the tank and creating downward slopes of at least 2%. The balance tank provides a means for recirculation of diverted or pasteurized milk."  (http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/pasteurization.html)
• Cooler- referigated product storage rooms
• Filler a bottle filling or any other type package filling machine
• Flow diversion device  or FDD, also called the flow diversion valve or FDV
• Hauler or milk hauler the driver of the farm pickup tanker or the transport tanker coming in to the plant
• Homo (see Homogenizer)
• Homogenizer
• HTST terminology a summary of HTST terms is collected at http://www.iffcca.org.il/_ArticlesLang/Article.asp?ArticleID=12&CategoryID=16
• Pasteurizer
• Receiving Bay- area in which raw milk tank trucks are unloaded, cleaned etc.
• Receivers- personnel (usually licensed) who collect official samples of raw milk from tank trucks and perform other tasks related to the unloading of the trucks
• Surge tank -(see Constant level tank)
• Short time (see HTST) 
• Silo-large verticle product storage tank
• Silo Alley  Vestibule containing the port holes, outlet valves, piping etc., of silos