In “Young Farmer, New Business,” meet dairy farmer Jennifer Mapes of Mapes Farm Fresh LLC in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. This Penn State alumna is seeing her high school scholarship essay come to life. Mapes started a business last year, processing milk and selling her Mapes Farm Fresh brand at her own store and to other retail partners.

This new venture is her dairy dream come true, along with having a barn filled with “excellent Brown Swiss cows,” as she remembers the winning essay that she wrote back in high school.

Watch “This American Dairy Farmer” to learn more about the story behind the scholarship – and why her chocolate milk is so special to her family, and her customers alike.

A young dairy farmer standing in front of some cows in a barn.
A cheerful dairy farmer petting a cow in a barn.
A young dairy farmer in front of a processing machine wearing a white Mapes Farm Fresh T-shirt.
Several members of a dairy family hold bottles of milk or glasses of chocolate milk while standing next to a cow.
A dairy senior man next to a dairy cow.
A family of dairy farmers standing with two cows wearing ornaments on their foreheads.
A young dairy farmer and her grandmother next to the processing machine.
A young dairy farmer and her grandmother toasting with a glass of chocolate milk.
Two small children helping a woman feed the cows while two other children watch the cows.
A couple of dairy farmers hugging, surrounded by cows.
Two bottles of chocolate milk, a bottle of strawberry milk, a bottle of orange cream, and a bottle of whole milk.
A young female dairy farmer next to processing machines.
A young female dairy farmer hugging a dairy cow.
Two dairy farmers prepare to fill plastic milk bottles.
Two girls in a field next to a calf.
A girl standing next to a calf in a field, in the background a group of people and a couple of girls.
A young dairy farmer surrounded by dairy cows in a field.
A dairy cow and a family of dairy farmers outside a barn.
A girl standing near a calf in a barn with some young people sitting in the background.
A girl holding a purple ribbon next to two cows and a boy at a fair.
A dairy farmer, dressed in a blue vest and white pants, standing with a cow outside a barn.
A dairy farmer hugs two young children, and behind them, their grandfather, standing next to a processing machine.
A selfie of a dairy farm girl and a group of dairy cows on a farm.
A dairy farm with a red barn and 3 dairy cows walking alongside a field.
The Mapes family is in front of the Mapes View Farm sign.
A dairy farmer taking a selfie with a fridge full of plastic milk bottles.
A family of dairy farmers inside a barn with dairy cows.