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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 © 2009 Guy Hand
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Guy Hand is a writer, public radio producer and photographer specializing in food and agriculture.
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