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Article: Traditions run 100-years deep at Tillamook County Creamery.
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- Rural Cooperatives
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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The two photos were taken 93 years apart. But the grainy, black-and-white photo taken on the Hurliman dairy farm in 1915 and the color digital photo snapped at the same location in 2008 tell a story of an unbroken chain of traditional, pasture-based dairy farming and cooperation among producers in the Tillamook Valley of northwestern Oregon.
For 100 years now, the story of dairy farming in this beautiful slice of coastal Oregon has been the story of the Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA), a dairy cooperative that is celebrating its centennial anniversary all year long.
The technology in the milking parlor may ...