Milk business in Mifflinburg | Business

MIFFLINBURG — Third-generation dairy farmer Jennifer Mapes has launched Mapes Farm Fresh LLC, a new business processing and selling cream-line milk fresh from the family’s Brown Swiss cows.

“It’s the freshest you can get,” she said of the whole white and chocolate milk she processes in a new building adjacent her roadside shop at 8180 State Route 304, Mifflinburg, that opened this month at the family farm.

Tracy Baylor, of Mifflinburg, visited the store twice in the first week it was open.

“I support local business and this is better” than store-bought, said Baylor, holding a container of white milk and chocolate milk in each hand.

Mapes said began the business to ensure the farm that was started by her grandparents in 1955 continues.

“It’s been really tough the last six…

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