Dairy2U is a modern-day milkman company that was founded by St. Cloud’s Brad Hagfors in 2019. Just this month, Hagfors and his company began to offer services within the areas of Patriot readership, including Clear Lake, Clearwater, Becker, Big Lake, and surrounding townships. 

Readers interested in Dairy2U’s services can visit their website at Dairy2U.com or check out their Facebook pages at Facebook.com/Dairy2U or Facebook.com/Dairy2UBigLake.

Modern-Day Milkman

“They [local small businesses and farmers] were losing ground to the big box stores,” Hagfors said, on founding his company. 

Hagfors wanted to help those farmers and businesses in his area. So he came up with Dairy2U to help distribute quality local products around the area. Hagfors found a way not only to distribute food essentials to customers, but to do so in a way that is convenient for the customer. Every week, Dairy2U delivers food items such as milk, butter, eggs, freshly-butchered meat, locally made ice-cream and pizzas, and other items to area homes.

“Every time I go to the store, I grab a cart. By the time I go to check out, the cart is full of things I didn’t come in to get,” Hagfors said. 

He says his service will save families money in the long run, since they won’t have to spend extra on items they don’t need that catch their eye while shopping.

Expanding Business

Hagfors and his driver for the Becker/Big Lake area, Shawn Quarberg, are excited to expand the business out of St. Cloud. Now, services are offered all down the I-94 corridor to Plymouth.

Quarberg, a Big Lake resident for the last four years, said he was especially excited to offer services to Becker and Big Lake, since residents of those communities typically have to drive a ways, to Monticello or St. Cloud, in order to do their grocery shopping.

Local Driver

Quarberg is a Big Lake resident who runs a small magazine in Blaine. He decided to become a driver for Dairy2U for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because he is an old friend and colleague of Hagfors, and Quarberg admired the business his friend had set up.

“What was even more of a driving decision,” Quarberg continued, “was when I had my daughter try the milk. She said she won’t go back to the other milk.”

Quality Products

Since Hagfors sources his produce directly from farmers, his products are fresher than most products sold in grocery stores, and there is greater quality control. One family provides Dairy2U customers with beef that has been butchered just that week. Stony Creek Dairy produces milk products that always come from the same herd of cows, unlike the milk found in stores, which is sourced from many different farms and all becomes mixed together. 

“It’s fresher, non-GMO, healthier, and as organic as possible,” Hagfors said. 

The company even offers frozen pizzas and ice cream from local businesses. 

“Jupiter Moon Ice Cream,” Hagfors said, “is like the Ben & Jerry’s of St. Cloud.”

COVID-19’s Impact on Farmers

One industry that was severely affected by the pandemic was the farming industry. Hagfors said that Stony Creek Dairy lost about 70% of its businesses last year. He hopes that he can continue to make their amazing products available, not just for the customers who want the best, freshest products, but for the farmers who desperately need support from the community.