Blessed Are The Cheese Makers

October 1, 2006
By Guy Hand

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Award-winning Idaho Pepper Cheddar cheese curds

Award-winning Idaho Pepper Cheddar cheese curds © 2009 Guy Hand

Idaho has become a Big Cheese state. Milk has surpassed the potato as our number one agricultural commodity and Idaho is now the second largest cheese producer in America. That’s a lot of cheese. But Big Cheese—with it’s factory farms and mechanized production—isn’t always good to the small farmer. Guy Hand visits a small dairy near Gooding with an award winning solution to the modern agricultural imperative to “get big or get out.”

 

 

The Ballards at their stand at the Boise Farmers Market

The Ballards at their stand at the Boise Farmers Market © 2009 Guy Hand

 Ballard Cheese web site

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