Hansen Dairy in the news
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Producing produce: Farmers markets
contribute millions to Iowa’s economy -
June 13, 2010
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... Hansen's Farm Fresh Dairy is a local success story. The Jay and Jeanne Hansen family of rural Hudson started bottling their own milk and making dairy products in 2004. Initially, the products were mainly sold on the farm, at farmers markets and a couple of stores...
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Aug. 14, 2009
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DES MOINES --- The Iowa State Fair handed out an award Thursday to a Hudson dairy farm for their dedication to animal agriculture. Jay and Jeanne Hansen and their family currently operate Hansen's Farm Fresh Dairy, supplying a number of stores and businesses...
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Aug. 12, 2009
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DES MOINES --- When Iowa's countryside was filled with farmers, so were the state fairgrounds. Few needed a lesson on what it was like to farm. Today, the Iowa State Fair is filled with city slickers who know their way around a pork chop but are clueless as to how it got there...
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Nicholls State gets Iowa experience at dairy before game against UNI -
Oct. 2, 2008
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HUDSON --- If Chuck McDade's milking skills are anything like his blocking, the Panther defense may be in for a long evening. The Nicholls State center, along with the rest of the football team from Thibodaux, La., toured the Jay and Jeanne Hansen dairy ...
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Feb. 11, 2008
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CEDAR FALLS --- Lilacs, orchids and other floral scents of spring permeate the air in Peggy Deutsch Knutson's country home. Knutson has developed a new soap formulated with Hansen's dairy milk in the ingredients.
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Oct. 30, 2007
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CEDAR FALLS --- The Hansen dairy empire, like demand for their milk, keeps growing. Jay and Jeanne Hansen and family opened their second dairy retail store last week in Cedar Falls, located at 127 E. 18th St. But unlike Moo Roo in Waterloo, which features ...
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Aug. 5, 2007
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HUDSON --- The shoe is on the other hoof. Hansen's Farm Fresh Dairy used to sell the most expensive milk on the local market. Now, in some cases, Jay and Jeanne Hansen and family are the low-cost suppliers in the Cedar Valley. Supply and demand ...
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June 11, 2006
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WATERLOO --- Local dairy farmers already selling milk and other products in the Cedar Valley are diversifying again, this time tapping into the lucrative dine-in ice cream market. Moo Roo, located in the Kimball and Ridgeway avenues shopping district ...
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June 6, 2004
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HUDSON - Consumers are forking out more moola for dairy products these days, which could benefit a local family selling their own milk. Jay and Jeanne Hansen and their four sons started bottling milk four months ago. The timing couldn't have been better ...
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Feb. 16, 2004
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HUDSON --- Hansen's Farm Fresh Dairy milk is in stores and selling out. Within hours of receiving the first shipment of milk last week, fresh off the Jay and Jeanne Hansen farm just east of here, Randall's Stop 'N Shop in Hudson sold out three-dozen ...
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March 31, 2003
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HUDSON --- If a tiger can hawk breakfast cereal, surely a wallaby will sell milk. The Jay and Jeanne Hansen family is betting on it. The dairy farmers hope to be selling milk directly to local residents by the end of June, and they're ...