Dan and Debbie's Creamery, Inc.

We are Dan and Debbie's Creamery.

We started with two Iowa dairy farmers committed to building a sustainable farm and modern day dairy processing facility in Ely, Iowa. With the help of our children, we dedicated our lives towards providing the freshest, most wholesome farm to table dairy products in the area.

After over a decade of raising beef cows on our small farm outside of Ely, we were ready for a new challenge. The love for cows and our desire to grow our farm led us down a path to consider becoming dairy farmers. After building various barns and a milking parlor, we slowly grew our Holstein milking herd from 30 to 150 cows. It was only a few years into dairy farming that our family became very intrigued with the idea of producing farm to table dairy products.

After years of researching small farmstead dairy processing facilities, we decided we wanted to produce our own farm to table dairy products. Some might say that the stars slowly aligned after the former Vavra Lumber Company went on the market in Ely, Iowa. It didn’t take long for us to see the potential that the building had. The location was simply perfect, being less than five minutes from our farm.

In 2013, we purchased the old lumber yard building and the renovations began. In-between the morning and night milkings, we spent all of our free time making the necessary changes to the building in order to have it ready to produce value-added dairy products. Nearly three years later, on July 20, 2016, we made their first vat of cheese using the milk from their own dairy farm.

Today, the Creamery is home to squeaky cheese curds, aged cheddar cheese, butter, handcrafted ice cream, and cream top milk!