Raise A Glass To Turner Dairy Farms

As the rest of us gear up for our celebrations, Turner Dairy Farms is winding its down. The family business spent 2010 celebrating its 80th anniversary.

People all over Pittsburgh probably remember drinking Turner milk from half-pint cartons on their school cafeteria trays when they were growing up.

The late Charles G. Turner founded the company in 1930. Six Turners — two second-generation and four third-generation — now work full time for the company, along with a few extra part-timers. Chuck Turner Jr., one of the representatives of the third generation, serves as company president.

Turner Dairy Farms gets its milk, certified free of artificial growth hormones and antibiotics, from 50 family farms within a 70-mile radius of the Penn Hills processing plant.

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