History


	OUR HISTORY
	Cabot Creamery and Vermont Farming Timeline

	1919		94 Cabot farmers purchase the building that becomes the original Cabot Creamery plant.

	1930		65% of the total Vermont farm income comes from the sale of dairy products. 421,000 cows in the state and only 359,000 people.*

	1939		Only about 1 million pounds of butter were still made on the farm.*

	1940		93% of all farms were electrified.*

	1952		First bulk tank was installed in Vermont.

	1960		Cabot Creamery increases to 600 farmer owners.

	1964		9,000 farms in Vermont with an average of 273 acres per farm. Farms account for only 43% of the states total land area.*

	1967		6,000 farms in the state using 43% of the total land area. 198,000 dairy cows.*

	1985		Approximately 3,000 Vermont dairy farms still in operation.*

	1986		The Federal Whole Herd Buyout Program began. 197 Vermont dairy farms sell out.*

	1992		Cabot merges with Agri-Mark, Inc. to form a major new dairy cooperative.

	1996		155,000 dairy cows in Vermont producing 2.6 billion pounds of milk on 1,974 farms.*

	2000		Agri-Mark builds a $20 million state-of-the art whey protein processing plant in Middlebury, VT; the only one of its kind in the country.

			*Information provided by http://www.vtbusinessmagazine.com/millennium.htm