Stratford business will move

Dairyland Labs will find new home in village’s old antique shop

Dairyland Laboratories, having sold the soil testing part of its business, will move from the Stratford Business/ Industrial Park to the former antique shop in downtown Stratford where it will continue providing forage testing services for area farmers.

Dan Reit, part-owner and vice president of Dairyland Laboratories which has headquarters in Arcadia, said on Monday the company is remodeling the former antique shop in Stratford so it can move its forage testing business into it before Monday, Aug. 1.

Dairyland Laboratories sold its current building to Ag Source, he said.

Dairyland Labs’ new location in downtown Stratford is at 212922 Legion Street, or just northeast of Ground Up Coffee Shop on the triangle shaped block north of STH 153.

Dan Reit’s father, Glen Reit, founded Dairyland Laboratories in the 1950s in Arcadia. Dairyland Laboratories currently operates satellite locations in DePere and Stratford; Jerome, Idaho; Battle Creek, Mich., and St. Cloud, Minn.

Reit’s brother-in-law, Dave Taysom, is currently the president of Dairyland Labs and his nephew, Kyle Taysom, is the business CEO. Dan Reit’s sister, Tami Reit Taysom, is Dairyland Labs’ secretary and manager of the human resources department at the company’s headquarters in Arcadia.

AgSource was founded in 1959 and has headquarters in Verona. The company has added a satellite location in Stratford to its other locations in Marshfield and Bonduel; Ellsworth, Iowa; Lincoln, Neb. and Umatilla, Oregon.

Dairyland Labs was originally located in a small building on STH 97 north of Community Financial Bank. Dairyland Labs eventually constructed a much larger building in the Stratford Business/Industrial Park. It sold the small red barn building to another company, which has since sold it to Kaiser Insurance Agency.