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Dedicated to producing incredibly fresh milk and egg products, Wilcox Farms is a fourth generation, family-run business.
In addition to shell eggs and milk products, Wilcox Farms added an egg further processing plant in 1992. This facility provides over 150,000 pounds of liquid eggs per week to bakeries and food service operations.
The Wilcox Farms Feed Mill, located in Roy, provides all the feed supplies for the farm and sells feed to other customers as well.
Aurora, Oregon
Edelweiss Farms became part of the Wilcox family in 2003. This egg production facility produces eggs for the Southwest Washington / Oregon region.
Cheney, Washington
Wilcox Farms opened a state of the art milk plant in Cheney, Washington in 1997. Currently, over 230,000 gallons of milk are produced each week. The Cheney plant produces an assortment of products from local milk in the Eastern Washington area and is an efficient all plastic bottling operation. The Cheney facility services Eastern Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
Roy, Washington
Harts Lake Valley is home to over one million Leghorn hens and pullets. In order to meet the demand for brown eggs, Wilcox Farms also houses flocks of Hybrid Rhode Island Red layer hens. A modern processing and packaging plant insures a prompt, comprehensive supply to a five-state and international marketing area. Approximately 770,000 eggs are gathered daily and packaged for supermarkets and restaurants in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Canada.
Summary
With deliveries made by Wilcox trucks, 24 hours a day, direct from the farm processing sites, products arrive with the highest degree of freshness and quality available. The staff at Wilcox Family Farm is proud to meet the needs of its valued customers by supplying the Northwest with top quality dairy and egg products. The Wilcox Family Farm has maintained its highly successful farming business for nearly 90 years and looks forward to many, many more.
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The Farm recognizes that the perpetuation and preservation of any business depends on the consistent generation of adequate profit; and to that end, profitability will always be a matter of focus, as well as the other non-financial dictates of this mission statement.
Wilcox Farms was founded on the principle of the American work ethic. This ethic is to be encouraged and fostered for the benefit of future generations.
Wilcox Farms is committed to the long-term preservation of the family business, with a particular sensitivity to protecting the invaluable heritage of product excellence and business integrity.
While striving to maintain its pre-eminent position in its existing business, Wilcox Farms will avail itself of opportunities to expand into other businesses which are consistent with the philosophy and traditions of the family.
Wilcox Farms is committed to protection of the income producing assets of the farm as a viable business entity, as opposed to liquidation, land development, or other dismemberment of the farm.
Wilcox Farms recognizes the need to provide for skilled professional management of the business for the long-term, and will be diligent in providing such management skills as may be required from either family or non-family sources.
Wilcox Farms has a commitment to its loyal employees:
- To extend to them an equal measure of loyalty as
- To provide a wholesome and happy work environment, and to foster a spirit of "family" among all who participate in the endeavors of the farm.
- To compensate employees fairly and equitably in relationship to their tenure and contribution.
Wilcox Farms has a commitment to the community and to the environment:
- To be a good corporate citizen of the community.
- To protect and preserve, to the degree consistent with prudent business practice, the character and beauty of the environment.
Wilcox Farms is committed to the preservation of the family history, artifacts, and all other tangible evidence of its colorful heritage. Maintaining the physical conditions and appearance of the farm shall be a responsibility of the management.
Wilcox Farms will manage its business affairs in a conservative/prudent manner, taking only well calculated business risks consistent with preserving the financial well-being of the business.
Wilcox Farms is committed to providing leadership to the industries in which its business is involved and the communities in which it operates.
Wilcox Farms recognizes the need to review its statement of mission from time to time in order to insure that it is, to the degree feasible, reflective of the consensus views of the family/owners.
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