From pasture to package

How one farm family reached for the retail dollar

Authors

  • Charles W. Hatcher Hatcher Family Dairy, College Grove, TN 37046

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro20133787

Abstract

The dairy industry in the United States has undergone significant structural change in the last 50 years. In Williamson County, Tennessee, which is my home county, there were over 500 dairies in the county during the 1950s. Now there are 4, and the Hatcher Family Dairy is one of those 4 remaining dairies.

This is the story of how our farm family reached for the retail dollar to save the dairy.

Cover image of the 46th Conference Proceedings: An image of cattle standing in a field during th day. They are looking rather indignantly at the camera. Yellow background.

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Published

2013-09-19

Issue

2013

Section

Dairy Sessions