The De Jong family — Arie and Maartge and their 10 children — relocated from the Netherlands in 1949 settling in San Diego County, launching Hollandia Dairy.
Today, Visalia dairyman Arie De Jong, son of the founder, says family dairies are spread across eight states with cow numbers on the order of 250,000.
Arie, like most of the De Jong clan in these parts, came to the Central Valley in the 1960s — an influx that spawned several decades of dairy expansion here, helping to make Tulare County the highest milk producing county in the U.S.
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