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Fred Olson credits Westby's success to sound, flexible management. "The board created an environment that was suitable to the farmers," he says. "They kept costs in line through the years and maintained a vision that was tuned in to changing times."
Walter Johnson, whose son Jerry now runs the 400-acre operation and continues the tradition of sending milk to Westby, says the Creamery always wrote out a generous "13th check" to patrons at year-end. "Milk prices ranged from $2.55 to $3.15 per cwt in the 1960s, but the overrun check got us excited," he says. "It typically was enough to pay property tax."
Westby, Wisconsin, 1942.
Office operations at the cooperative creamery.
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