KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Everyone pitches in at Hickory Corner Dairy in Speedwell, where dairy has been a family business for Jim and Ann Shipley since the 1980s. The dairy sells its milk exclusively via a milk cooperative to the Weigel’s stores, where now all of the milk carries a red Tennessee Milk label.
“I wouldn’t change it, not one bit,” said Beth Shipley about how she and her brother growing up around dairy farming. Now she bottle feeds the baby calves. “I raise all the calves, I’m the calf grower.”
The Shipley family manages a dairy involving 700 cows that need milked each day. Then a truckload of fresh milk makes its way to a processing facility in Powell. There, Weigel’s processes milk from HIckory Corner and a few other East Tennessee dairies that it sells exclusively at its stores. A Tennessee Milk label makes clear to customers the origin of that milk.
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