Plains Dairy Products Inc. started with a mere seventy cows in 1934. One couldn’t have envisioned that nearly seven decades later Plains Dairy would be selling 110,000 gallons of milk a day to customers over 500 miles away. Yet, as the city’s sole operating dairy, the friendly operation remains an Amarillo icon that generates a warm, down-home feeling from a company that has annual sales that top $60 million. Operations which include not only milk and other dairy sales, but also juice, drinks and bottled water across much of West Texas and nearly all of New Mexico, and even parts of Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and Arizona.
As part of a $6.5 million expansion project in 1995, this producer of milk and other dairy products sought assistance in purchasing additional equipment and constructing new facilities. The Amarillo EDC provided $500,000 in financing at no interest, related to the creation of 20 new jobs.
