private industry food founded 1889 headquarters fort atkinson wisconsin u.s. key people milo jones products breakfast sausage bacon ham scrapple liver sausage website jonesdairyfarm.com jones dairy farm is an american privately owned food company that produces a series of meat products including breakfast sausage ham canadian bacon breakfast bacon scrapple and liver sausage . the company was established in 1889 . 1 the jones family has owned and operated the business since its establishment by milo c. jones . contents 1 history 2 location 3 products 4 sponsorships 5 references 6 external links history edit in 1832 milo jones a government surveyor moved from vermont to fort atkinson with his wife and two children to establish a traditional dairy farm . this small family farm produced primarily cheese but also raised pigs for their own consumption . 2 in 1849 milo c. jones was born and soon joined his family in working the farm . at the age of 35 the younger jones developed rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to continue working on the farm however in 1889 with the family facing financial difficulty he decided to begin a sausage making enterprise in the family s cheese room using his mother s traditional family recipe that had been brought from vermont . 3 milo jr. s sausage production technique was unique at the time instead of pork trimmings he made his sausage using ham loin and shoulder cuts . 2 milo jr. began selling his sausage to wisconsin grocers neighbors and friends but quickly expanded into large markets such as chicago new york and boston and began delivering product by rail . unlike most sausage makers of the day milo advertised heavily . 2 this advertising originated with direct mail and expanded to national magazines like saturday evening post literary digest and good housekeeping as early as 1903 . 2 jones dairy farm established a number of industry firsts . in the 1920s jones was the first meatpacking company to quick freeze sausage which allowed shipping throughout the united states and abroad without the need for chemical preservatives . the company was also the first to introduce a line of fully cooked breakfast sausage and one of the first to offer a light breakfast sausage product . 4 jones also became one of the first meatpacking companies to operate a modern bacteriological laboratory on site to monitor and test food safety . the company is one of a handful of companies and the only privately owned company that meets the standards of the american association for laboratory accreditation a nonprofit public service dedicated to the formal recognition of testing laboratories inspection bodies and proficiency testing . 4 after milo c. jones jr. s death in 1919 he was succeeded as president by his daughter mary . she was followed by her nephew alan jones in 1960 and then by his brother edward jones in the 1970s . alan s son milo c. jones iii became president in 1983 . edward c. jones jr. son of edward became the seventh president in 1995 and his son philip jones the great great grandson of company founder milo c. became president and ceo in 2001 . 2 location edit jones dairy farm is set on 300 acres 120 ha and encompasses the factory crop fields and the original farmhouse where milo jones i settled in 1843 . on december 27 1978 the property was listed on the national register of historic places . 5 products edit in addition to the original breakfast sausage recipe which has remained unchanged since 1889 jones also produces hams bacon canadian bacon liver sausage and scrapple for both retail and foodservice customers . 4 these are sold both in traditional supermarkets and grocery stores as well as by special order from the company s website . sponsorships edit jones offers a number of products certified gluten free by the gluten free certification organization a program of the gluten intolerance group of whom they are a sponsor . 6 jones also promotes awareness of celiac disease by sponsoring the celiac disease foundation 7 and is a benefactor member of the celiac sprue association . 8 in 2015 jones sponsored an annual scholarship for culinary students at pennsylvania college of technology . 9 references edit our promise . jonesdairyfarm.com . retrieved 11 april 2016 . a b c d e milo c. jones . wisconsin meat industry hall of fame . university of wisconsin madison . retrieved 11 april 2016 . agb november 2 2004 . america s greatest brands . volume iii . america s greatest brands . isbn 0 9706860 2 1 . a b c jones t. foster december 2007 . keeping up with the joneses . costco connection . p. 21 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . national register of historic places application form . national park service . retrieved 11 april 2016 . jones dairy farm joins the generation gf sponsorship program . gluten.org . november 13 2015 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . jones dairy farm . celiac.org . celiac disease foundation . retrieved 11 april 2016 . for people with celiac disease breakfast sausage and ham are back on the table . . jonesdairyfarm.com . retrieved 11 april 2016 . jones dairy farm establishes scholarship for culinary students . penn state news . november 20 2015 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jones dairy farm & oldid 722564210 categories farms in wisconsinjefferson county wisconsinmeat processing in the united statesamerican sausagesfarms on the national register of historic places in wisconsin1889 establishments in the united statesnational register of historic places in jefferson county wisconsinhidden categories wisconsin articles missing geocoordinate dataall articles needing coordinates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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