You've heard of the term "milking it for all it's worth" 
That's definitely not the case at Shatto Farms...Dairy Farming hasn't been a big money maker for cow milkers in this area because they had to sell it to a dairy co-op. Diary farmers sell milk by weight and 100 pounds is about 11.5 gallons.
For example, Leroy Shatto was making about $10.80 a hundred for his milk and it was costing him $11.00-$11.25 a hundred to produce it.
That was until Leroy decided to start bottling his own milk!
Leroy and his wife got a couple of grants through the Missouri Department of Agriculture to help do some market studies and develop a business plan for Shatto Farms. At the time they were milking 80 cows a day and he wasn't sure if people would buy his milk.
Well they did! In the first months the dairy sold all the milk it could get out of those 80 cows. Two months later they bought 80 more cows and now they have 260 cows.
There are even Kansas City restuarants now that are catching on and using their milk and cream. One restuarant owner who's been a chef in France says, "There is no product like it around here. His butter is as good as any butter I've worked with anywhere."
Hats off to Shatto Milk Company which is a small, family owned and operated, dairy farm located just north of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
I've had their milk and you can find it all over Kansas City now and some in Kansas. It's Udderly Delicious!!
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