Mauthe's Progress Milk Barn is an artisan dairy producing milk products in Mississippi. Located on 50 acres, the family business includes Holstein cows and Jersey cows. They produce milk, sold in pint and half-gallon bottles, yogurt butter, buttermilk, cheesecakes, creole cream cheese, an offering they are credited with helping resurrect regionally, and have Creole cream cheese cheesecakes sold at the Crescent City Farmers Market. The milk is pasteurized slightly and not homogenized. The farm uses no chemicals, growth hormones or pesticides, but they do use non-organic feed.
An episode of Bizarre Foods and Appetite for Life were filmed at their farm.
Katrina
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina damaged their barn, house and other buildings, wrecked the electrical system and destroyed the milk processing and delivery business. The Mauthes and their daughters (Sarah Tullos and Katie Cutrer) and sons (Travis and Daniel) had 40 cows on their 328-acre farm near Progress, Mississippi. They took other jobs and were delayed by the two years it took for environmental quality permitting for the farm's oxidation pond, but they eventually got back in the dairy business. After four years they returned to business in June 2010, restarting by selling their products at farmers' markets in southern Mississippi before returning to New Orleans in November 2011 and rebuilding distribution in stores and restaurants.