Dairy Month: Let’s Visit the Oldest Milking Jersey Herd In The Country!

“We were a farm before Tennessee was a state!”

As we celebrate National Dairy Month, we head just south of Nashville to Old Stone Creamery.
It is home to the oldest milking Jersey herd in the country!

The Tennessee Farm Bureau shows us how this long-standing tradition has stayed afloat in the midst of a tough environment for dairy farms.

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