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    OperationsDairy Processing and EquipmentProcessing

    Broadacre Dairy processes award-winning chocolate milk for Weigel's convenience store

    By James Carper
    April 10, 2012

    If he came back to visit, grandfather William W. Weigel would recognize the log cabin and the large barn on his old farm. But he might not know the modern dairy processing firm that Broadacre Dairy has become.

     

     

    At A Glance

    Location: Powell, Tenn.

    Interstate Milk Shippers: Plant 122. IMS ratings (January 2012) — Raw milk: 90; Enforcement: 97

    History: Built in 1947. Last modernization program was 1990 to 1995

    Size: 20,000 square feet

    Production employees: 12

    Products made: Milk (vitamin D whole, 2%, Skim D’Lite fat-free, 2% chocolate), buttermilk, egg nog, orange juice, brewed tea, fruit punch, lemonade

    Formats: Dairy products are bottled in gallon, half-gallon, quart and pint containers. Nondairy beverages are bottled in half-gallons and pints.

    Processing capacity: 40,000 gallons daily

    Storage silos: Two raw silos, three standard tanks, three pasteurized silos, one heat-treated cream tank

    Pasteurization type: High temperatue/short time

    Filling lines: One. A second line is planned

    Warehouse: 2,500-square-foot warehouse with 70-bay rack system. One 2,500-square-foot cooler

     

    Read more about Bill Weigel and his c-store operations. 

    KEYWORDS: chocolate milk dairy foods milk processing Skim D'lite sweet tea

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    Jim Carper is the former editor-in-chief of Dairy Foods.

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