Wilcox Closing Roy Dairy Operations ( 5. February 2008, 19:46 by Derek Young) ~ No!
The TNT is reporting that the Wilcox Family Farms is closing its Roy dairy operation by the end of March. The company will maintain its 100 year old egg operations in Roy.
Why should we care on a site about Tacoma? Because, for those of us in Tacoma who are trying to source our foods locally, the Wilcox products have become a staple of our kitchens. Also, the Wilcox family is local and involved in many areas of trying to make farming a viable livelihood.
Bummer.
Link to The News Tribune
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Wow. Just wow. Big surprise here. Just saw Jim Wilcox honored at the Pierce Conservation District Annual Meeting a week ago, where he was honored for all of the good work Wilcox does for sustainable farming in our area…
First Faith Dairy, now this.
This is a huge loss for Pierce County. We better hope that peak oil doesn’t hit anytime soon, or else milk is going to get really expensive really fast.
1 | Posted by jamie from thriceallamerican | Feb 5, 08:31 PM
The Trib article says they have a dairy operation in Cheney. So like, basically, Spokane…
Are there any remaining dairies in the county that we can buy in grocery stores? Or are there CSA options?
(Honestly, we already were buying Golden Glen Creamery milk from Stadium more often than Wilcox because we could get it in glass bottles…this isn’t our fault, is it?)
4 | Posted by jamie from thriceallamerican | Feb 5, 10:15 PM
Okay, I bet nobody here knows or cares, but If you do: Does this mean that BNSF will discontinue its weekly rail service to the Roy grain tower!?
6 | Posted by TheGulag | Feb 5, 10:21 PM
I am a huge fan of Smith Bros Farms. I love that they delivery right to my door, and have tons of products.
http://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/subpage/milkman.html
8 | Posted by Tracy | Feb 6, 09:48 AM
Jim@5: You obviously never drank the chocolate milk from Faith Dairy. That stuff was the bomb.
Tracy@8: Having grown up in Kent, I have a certain love for Smith Brothers. But unfortunately their milk cannot really be considered local anymore, as they no longer have any herds in Western Washington…all of their milk comes from the Eastern side of the state.
9 | Posted by jamie from thriceallamerican | Feb 6, 10:05 AM
Yess! I am not alone in my amazement of Wilcox’s chocolate milk. Who’s samples will the Puyallup Fair pass out at the dairy barn now? This is a bummer.
10 | Posted by Broadweezy | Feb 6, 10:12 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
no more Wilcox Old fashioned chocolate milk?!?!?
I will miss the Chocolatey 350 calorie-a-bottle-because-it’s-made-with-cream goodness.
11 | Posted by zintradi | Feb 6, 03:00 PM
Why? did they not make enough money! what else is going to be outsourced, and how old will our milk be by the time we get it. I feel real bad wilcox is all we bought. Where is this going to end? In China
12 | Posted by Lorrie Northcutt | Feb 6, 06:59 PM
Wilcox did it to themselves; they went after a lot of business (Albertsons, Costco, Walmart) by pricing their products under market. Never a good business plan! Fuel costs and too much shipping distance killed ‘em.
13 | Posted by James | Feb 13, 08:44 AM
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