For a combined total of 100 years, a family business has been hauling milk all over Wisconsin. The business is now making its final rounds. Im charitee seebecker with the midwest farm report. Hauling milk has been a lifelong career for Tom Schwartz who started in 1974, just two months after graduating high school. His father asked him if he wanted to haul milk, and that was the beginning of his journey. 

“I can still remember the first farm I picked up, which was also the last farm I picked up,” says Schwartz. “It's an everyday thing and the farmers are your second family."

The milk industry has changed a lot over the years, with farms getting bigger and bigger. When he first started, Schwartz picked up 20 farms a day and 38,000 pounds of milk. Now at the time of his retirement, he was hauling 150,000 pounds of milk for 15 farms.

For a combined total of 100 years, a family business has been hauling milk all over Wisconsin. The business is now making its final rounds. Im charitee seebecker with the midwest farm report. Hauling milk has been a lifelong career for Tom Schwartz who started in 1974, just two months after graduating high school. His father asked him if he wanted to haul milk, and that was the beginning of his journey. 
“I can still remember the first farm I picked up, which was also the last farm I picked up,” says Schwartz. “It's an everyday thing and the farmers are your second family."
The milk industry has changed a lot over the years, with farms getting bigger and bigger. When he first started, Schwartz picked up 20 farms a day and 38,000 pounds of milk. Now at the time of his retirement, he was hauling 150,000 pounds of milk for 15 farms.

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