Wilcox Closing Roy Dairy Operations
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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13 comments
J jamie from thriceallamerican February 6, 2008
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.
T tacomachickadee February 6, 2008
Speechless.
J Jenyum February 6, 2008
I am also really shocked to hear that. Do they have a dairy operation somewhere else, or is this just it for their dairy line?
J jamie from thriceallamerican February 6, 2008
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?)
J Jim @ PSP February 6, 2008
Wilcox Farms has the best chocolate milk in the world.
T TheGulag February 6, 2008
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!?
M morgan February 6, 2008
Major bummer!
The only thing that didn’t make me more sad when Faith Dairy closed was that we still had Wilcox.
I think I’m just going to buy me some cows now…
T Tracy February 6, 2008
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
J jamie from thriceallamerican February 6, 2008
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.
B Broadweezy February 6, 2008
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.
Z zintradi February 6, 2008
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
no more Wilcox Old fashioned chocolate milk?!?!?
I will miss the Chocolatey 350 calorie-a-bottle-because-it’s-made-with-cream goodness.
L Lorrie Northcutt February 7, 2008
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
J James February 13, 2008
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.