Overstreet Dairy is home to 1270 milking cows, 1100 heifers, 250 steers and 90 bulls. The farm, located in Chillicothe, Texas, is close to the Oklahoma state line about 180 miles northeast of Ft. Worth. “The makeup of our herd currently is 29% Brown Swiss and the balance being Holsteins and some crossbreeds,” said Michael. “We currently have 335 Brown Swiss milking cows and 244 heifers.”

Overstreet Dairy is a partnership between Gary Overstreet and his son Michael. It is a family-owned business. Gary and Glenda Overstreet started the business in June of 1972. Their children, Michael, Steven and Rhonda, all grew up on the dairy. After graduating from high school, each continued to work on the dairy until Steven and Rhonda found other opportunities, Steven in the feeding of cattle while Rhonda graduated from college and married. In May of 1993 Michael married Christine. They remain on the farm and have three children Mikayla (16) Brianna (14) and Garrett (9) of their own.

Overstreet Dairy employs 24 people. “When we milked 250 cows we did a lot of the work ourselves,” recalled Michael. “Now we spend a lot more time dealing with individual employees - more explaining how and why and less hands on work.”  However, Michael confirmed that the entire family is still very “hands-on” since they are always out working with their employees on the farm and with the cows.