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    Farm Name Evans Farmhouse Creamery
    Rating (5)           Evans Farmhouse Creamery

    Location Norwich, NY
    Products Fluid milk products
    Market Area New York/New Jersey
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    Evans Farmhouse CreameryDave and Sue Evans certainly deserve to be proud of their ranking as one of the top dairy farms in our study. They write:

    “Evans Farmhouse is a family owned and operated, USDA certified organic creamery located in Norwich, New York. We bottle our milk and make our yogurt in our on-farm creamery using milk from our 75 organically raised, pasture-fed Jersey cows. Their Hillside grass diet is supplemented with non-GMO certified organic grain, hay, baylage, and haylage throughout the year. Our organic products taste better and are better for you than conventional dairy products. This is truly due to the organic grass-based practices we use and believe in.”

     

    Criteria Points Comments
    Ownership Structure 80 Family Business
    Milk Supply 95 70% own farm+other families
    Disclosure of Information for Verification 100 Full and open disclosure
    Certifier farms 100 COI
    Certifier processing 100 COI
    Cows on pasture time/acreage provided 100 Fully pasture-based
    Health and longevity of cows 100 Extremely low cull rate!
    Replacement animals only from organic farms 100 Closed herd
    Antibiotics used on young cattle 100 Never
    Reproductive hormones used 100 Never
    Farm support oversight 95 "Excellent oversight-direct relationship"
    Outside dairy ingredients purchased 100 None
    TOTAL SCORE 1170 FIVE COWS (Outstanding)