WASHBURN, Wis. — Inside the milk-house store at Tetzner's Dairy, a young couple and their friend packed a cooler full of ice cream. They stuffed a small envelope with the requisite dollar amount and plopped it into a lock box.
The simple transaction, sans attendant, has long been the way of the generational Tetzner dairy farm, where age-old things such as the honor system mingle with innovations such as a robotic milker to make the family outfit viable in a modern age.
"We don't deliver, either," said Pete Tetzner, 34, a third-generation farmer who led the News Tribune on a tour of the farm earlier this month. "We just don't have the time to do it."
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