It was appropriate that Chobani’s big announcement came at a dairy farm, about 10 miles from the manufacturing plant it was going to take over.
The yogurt maker said this month that it will invest $1.2 billion and create 900 jobs at a shuttered beverage facility in Upper Macungie Township. However, the news conference wasn’t in the plant’s parking lot; it was at Crystal Spring Farm, a 350-acre dairy and crop farm in North Whitehall Township.
“Every cow in our herd is born and raised right here on our farm, and we grow all of our own feed,” said Jacob Sell, a fifth-generation farmer at Crystal Spring. “We believe that exceptional care for our animals results in exceptional milk.”…