AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (ROCKTOWN NOW) – Governor Glenn Youngkin announced today that Shamrock Farms will invest $59 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Augusta County.

The project will create 28 new jobs and add 81,00 square feet to the company’s existing 250,000-square-foot facility in Mill Place Commerce Park in Verona.

“Shamrock Farms’ decade of growth and investment in Augusta County is a powerful endorsement of Virginia’s business climate,” Youngkin said in a news release. “By enhancing their production capabilities here, Shamrock is helping to ensure that high-quality, locally produced dairy products continue to reach markets across the East Coast.”

The expansion coincides with Shamrock Farms’ 10th anniversary of operations in the Commonwealth. Shamrock Farms is a leading dairy product manufacture, and has grown into one of the largest family-owned dairy businesses in the nation.

The company employs approximately 6,000 people nationwide with two milk manufacturing plants. The Augusta County facility opened in 2014 and focuses on producing extended shelf-life dairy products and serves markets across the East Coast.

The expansion project will increase the facility’s manufacturing capacity by reconfiguring space to accommodate a new production line and adding incremental cold storage. As a result of this project, over the next four years, the company will purchase an additional $32,875,466, or 16.555 million pounds, of milk from Virginia dairy cooperatives.

This project marks Shamrock’s second major expansion in Augusta County, following a $40 million investment in 2017 that created more than 70 jobs.