Hatcher Family Dairy to Open State-of-the-Art Creamery

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture and Hatcher Family Dairy invite you to a ribbon cutting of the new on-farm milk processing facility.This grand-opening event showcases the brand new state-of-the-art Abe Hatcher Creamery bottling facility. The addition of the creamery increases the dairy processing output to more than 1,600 gallons of milk per week for direct to consumer sales. The new creamery processing facility will enable the family farm to be sustainable and remain in farmland for generations to come.

WHEN:    1 p.m. CDT, July 30

WHERE: Hatcher Family Dairy, 6545 Arno Road, College Grove, TN 37046

WHY: America’s current economy has an effect on businesses of all sorts across the nation. Family farms are not immune to these circumstances. Tennessee alone saw 22 family owned dairy farms go out of business over the past year. A family farm since 1831, Hatcher Dairy Farms creamery addition is an economic safeguard for the family farm to remain viable for generations to come.

To learn more about this family dairy, visit www.hatcherfamilydairy.com. You can also find other Tennessee farms selling directly to the public at www.PickTnProducts.org.

Pick Tennessee Products is a service of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and helps to connect the public with food grown, raised or processed in Tennessee. 

Contact:  Dan Strasser, TDA Director of Marketing, 615-837-5298