Get yourself a milkman

There were major changes in the market in the late 1980’s that altered the ability to deliver this way profitably. At this time, the business was transitioned to the next generation. The goal was to keep home delivery, in glass bottles, alive.

The idea of the “speed route” was adopted. Deliveries were made once a week and at night.

To maintain quality, we decided to offer milk produced by only our own cows and bottled in our plant. We used glass bottles, filled, delivered, returned, cleaned, sanitized and filled again. Customers continued to love great fresh milk, produced and bottled locally and delivered to their homes.

With the speed route, Longmont Dairy provides the freshest milk possible. The cows are milked three times a day (like they like it), the milk is sent from the farm to our processing plant where it is bottled within 24 hours. Then the deliveries start, and milk is on the customers’ doorsteps.

— Longmont Dairy, About Us