Meet Samantha and Jon Major | Raw Milk Dairy Farmer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Samantha and Jon Major and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Samantha and Jon, we’d love for you to start things off by telling us something about your industry that we and others not in the industry might be unaware of?
The amount of work that goes into it for sure. We share all the cute cow and calf photos with our customers and we love that they love our girls as much as we do, but they are high maintenance. We milk twice a day, everyday. It has to be at the same time everyday and these ladies do not take a holiday. It takes about two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening just to get through the milking process and basic clean up behind it. That doesn’t include the time it takes to wash bottles, bottle milk, breakdown and sanitize the equipment, stock the store, load and make deliveries, our weekly barn deepclean, or the care and upkeep on the herd. We have a lot of friends in the commercial dairy industry and I don’t even think they fully grasp the extent of the cleaning that goes on here. There are many days that our process room is cleaner than my personal kitchen.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
Majors Farm TX started in 2019 right outside Richwood, TX as a small hobby farm that consisted off a backyard chicken flock to supply my family and friends with fresh eggs and a handful of registered Jersey and Brown Swiss cows that our son showed in 4H. Due to the nature of dairy cattle and the amount of work that goes into owning them, our cows spent the majority of the year at a friend’s dairy in Louisiana, while we raised the heifers and kept our dry cows on our property. In late 2020 we found the beautiful piece of property in Sweeny, TX that we now call home. We had the space, the knowhow and the cattle, so it didn’t take us long to decide that it was time to bring the cows home for good. We started the licensing process with the State of Texas in January 2021 and the construction phase began. We made it through the freeze, the flooding and hurricane Nicolos in 2021. We dealt with inflation and shortages of supplies all throughout the long building process. Now here we are a year later, the milk cows made their final haul to Texas on March 18th, 2022 to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. After showing there they came home on the 20th and we hit the ground running. Our farm store wasn’t complete at that time, so we were selling milk out of our dairy barn process room. The farm store was finally up and running at the end of April with only a small table and one refrigerator of milk. It has been open seven days a week since and we have expanded our products to include eggs, honey, meat and other odds and ends. Majors Farm TX was founded to be able to provide our community with the safest and best quality real raw products that we are capable of. This has truly been a passion project for us and we feel so blessed to be able to provide this to our surrounding neighbors. It’s early mornings and many late nights but it has been worth every minute.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
The surrounding community has welcomed our little farm with so much appreciation and support. We couldn’t do this without your support!

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