Posts Tagged ‘ dairies ’

Market & Garden Report: Raw Milk

July 23, 2010
By Guy Hand
Raw goat milk

Raw milk is a controversial food.  Proponents say it is healthier and more flavorful than processed, pasteurized milk.  Yet many states outlaw its sale, saying raw milk is unsafe. Idaho, however, recently changed it’s laws to allow the selling of raw milk.  In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy...
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Cow Power To Horsepower, making mileage on manure

February 13, 2010
By The Northwest News Network
Dairy owner Darryl Vander Haak. By Tom Banse

(GH: Tom Banse of The Northwest News Network reports on converting cow manure to electricity on Northwest Public Radio) BELLINGHAM, WA – When you think of what federal economic stimulus money has paid for, the first things that come to mind might be highway paving, energy retrofits or high-speed trains. Now here’s one of the...
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Cutting CAFO Regulations in Idaho Counties

January 25, 2010
By Guy Hand
Photo by Guy Hand

The dairy industry in Idaho has seen explosive growth over the last decade or so.  According to United Dairymen of Idaho, the state is now the 2nd largest milk producer in the West and the 3rd largest cheese maker in America. That output comes, in large part, from confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, that...
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Miraculous Cheese Making

December 23, 2009
By Guy Hand
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If you noticed the post a while back, I spent several months this year trying to make cheese.  Some attempts turned out surprisingly tasty (yogurt, mozzarella, manchego), others . . . not so much (a “quick” cheddar gave meaning to the phrase “chalk and cheese”). What my self-guided apprenticeship taught me was a deep, worshipful...
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Another Side to the Dairy Debate

December 21, 2009
By Mary Hawkins
Another Side to the Dairy Debate

Recently, Northwest Public Radio aired a profile about a family dairy  as part of a series on the Northwest economy.  It resulted in a flurry of comments from representatives of the dairy industry, and it spurred questions about the practices of pasteurization and homogenization. Mary Hawkins took the opportunity to speak...
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The (Food) Year in Ideas

December 14, 2009
By Guy Hand
The (Food) Year in Ideas

The New York Times Sunday magazine came out yesterday with it’s 9th annual “Year in Ideas” issue.  The Times calls it a collection of “noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity . . .” Several of those notions involve food and beverage.  Though they aren’t Northwest...
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Factory Farms and the Environment

November 25, 2009
By Guy Hand
Factory Farms and the Environment

GH: Another story concerning the alleged environmental impacts of feedlots and factory farms in Southern Idaho.  In this case the judge has ruled in favor of the accused feedlot manager. There has been a tremendous growth in feedlots and large-scale dairies in Southern Idaho over the past decade or so. With them has come concerns over...
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