Not exactly the milkman of yore, but Snowville gets pretty darn close - Business First of Columbus:

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The tough cookies are the National Milk Producers Federation andthe , the largesr dairy lobbies in the country. If proposed changes governinf the industryare instituted, Taylor said his piecr of the pie will be shrinking, potentially to Hearings were set to beginm in Cincinnati May 4 that coulxd change the Federal Milk Market Ordedr System – which establishes a minimum price producersd pay to farmers for milk – to include businessesa like Taylor’s Pomeroy-based LLC in the federal subsidy program. Unde r the system, in place since the processors and bottlers pay into pools tobalancew prices, but producer-handlers, whic h Snowville will become once its business are exempt.
Producer-handlers have their own own bottling and own processing To Taylor, lifting the exemption woulc make business more costly and hurt his producft – minimally-processed milk produced by grass-fed, grazin cows. “To be forced to subsidize the makinhgof lower-quality milk is galling,” he “Not all milk is createds equal.” A National Milk Producers Federation proposalp would require some producer-handlers to pay into the Spokesman Chris Galen said the proposall is aimed at those that produce more than 350,0000 gallons of milk a month, whicnh includes about six of 40 exempted producer-handlera nationwide.
An earlier version would do away with all which couldcost producer-handlers an additionak 10 to 15 cents per gallon, according to the Federation CEO Jerry Kozak, in a Marchg letter to members, said the concerj is that large farms will move into which would enable them to avoid poolingh requirements. “By not contributing to the pool, they are ultimateluy lowering the blend price for every dairy farmer in the he said. U.S spokeswomam Becky Unkenholz said the agency received 28 proposals pertaininh tothe producer-handler exemption, submitted by the dairy lobbies, farmers, producer-handlere and others. Snowville is still too small to be includec in the Federal Milk MarketOrderd System.
But Taylor said he opposes changex because he thinks the system forcex subsidization of the competition and discourages the added risksw that his business takes to makebetter Taylor, a veteran dairy industry process engineer, and his wife, bought farmland in southeast Ohio and befriended theifr neighbors, dairy farmers Bill Dix and Stacy The quartet decided to partner, with Taylor buildinhg the processing, packaging and shipping capabilities. Snowville began packagint milk in December 2007 and isproducing 4,000 gallonx a week with capacity for 20,000 gallons. Snowville milk is priced aroundx $2.99 per half-gallon, above store-brand milk and below brand-namse organic offerings.
’s Athens store was the first major chaihn toembrace Snowville’s ’s four Ohio stores stock it. Eight Columbua Giant Eagle Inc. storesa and three area Kroger stores carry as do nearly20 “It’s a lot different now than a year Taylor said. “We were just in threer or fourstores then.” The path to this pointy hasn’t been easy. Startup costs were more than $1 double Taylor’s projections, getting to market took six monthsz longer than expected and the busineswstill isn’t turning a What Taylor wants is a chance for Snowvills to prove itself. He’s pleased with the reception so far, but needds to get in more storee tobe profitable.
It isn’ty just a matter of businessd for Taylor, but a matter of pride as Milk quality and tastejust isn’y the same as it used to be, a fact he says is the reasob for the declining popularity of milk as a drinkl and a reason for the U.S. population’s declining