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		<title>The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/02/the-raw-milk-deal-idaho-legitimizes-small-scale-raw-milk-producers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Aug. 3, federal and county law enforcement agents raided a Venice, Calif., raw-food club, searching for raw milk. The YouTube video of the raid showed officers, with guns drawn, working their way through the facility in what critics called &#8220;government-sponsored terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;an attack on food freedom.&#8221; Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several years, law enforcement agencies have carried out raw-milk raids in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. Each raid increases the tension that already surrounds the debate over raw milk. Idaho, by contrast, has taken a very different raw-milk route. &#8220;Raw milk comes straight from the cow or goat. We don&#8217;t do anything to it except filter it and flash cool it and bottle it,&#8221; said Debra Jantzi, owner of Treasured Sunrise Acres, a Grade A raw-milk dairy in Fruitland. Pasteurization, on the other hand, is a heating process that kills bacteria and other pathogens and has been a standard practice in the U.S. dairy industry since the mid-20th century. Many state and federal health agencies claim that raw milk is dangerous to drink&#8211;citing a 2010 outbreak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right to Farm vs. the Public&#8217;s Right to Know</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Alma Hasse walked purposely, head down, toward a red brick building. The Jerome County Courthouse held a mountain of files on the county&#8217;s dairy CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, and Hasse wanted a look at them. She and her agricultural watchdog group, Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment believed that Idaho&#8217;s factory farms weren&#8217;t being adequately monitored or regulated. That&#8217;s why she and a small group of her members burst into the county offices on that dreary December afternoon, requesting to see the CAFO records. But it soon became clear the group wouldn&#8217;t get what it wanted. The office staff, caught off guard and obviously not prepared to respond to that rare and forceful request for files, complied hesitantly, but within minutes Jerome County Commissioner Charlie Howell and County Planner Nancy Marshall arrived and asked the group to give the records back. Faces reddened, voices rose and soon a Jerome County cop arrived, looking as confused as everyone else. Marshall said the county simply didn&#8217;t have an employee available to sit with the group as they pored over files. Hasse&#8217;s daughter, Shavan, demanded that Marshall cite the county code allowing her to withhold the requested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Food Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to get all Dickensian when looking at what’s happening across the agriculture landscape. As the spring growing season begins, there are plenty of examples sprouting that suggest that, in terms of food and farming, we are indeed living in the best of times and, if not the worst of times, some pretty disconcerting ones. First the the best of times. This coming weekend some of Idaho’s 55-and-counting farmers’ markets will set up their stands for the season. Here in the Treasure Valley, the Capital City Public Market in Boise and the Eagle Saturday Market in Eagle will both open on Saturday, April 16th. As I’ll report in the April 20th Boise Weekly and the following Friday’s Edible Idaho radio program on KBSX 91.5, Idaho’s farmers’ markets have more than doubled in number in the last five years. And they’ve added all kinds of new, user friendly features like EBT, social networking, interactive online maps, cooking classes and countless other embellishments to make shopping for fresh, local food easier and more fun. The best single feature of the farmers’ market system, though, is also its oldest: Transparency. That one-on-one, face-to-face contact between grower and eater instantly shortens our often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Water Footprint on Your Plate</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Arkle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent rains and sunny weather have got me thinking about spring, planting vegetable gardens — and the water footprint of food production. This time of year, as farmer&#8217;s markets open up after a winter hiatus and Idaho starts to offer fruits and vegetable again, I’m reminded that producing food in much of Idaho requires one scarce thing — water. Whether from my vegetable garden or the grocery store, the food we purchase and enjoy has a water footprint. Depending on what food is grown and the size of the farming operation, the footprint can be a large one or a small one. It’s a question of scale. Agriculture and food production is obviously a major piece of Idaho’s heritage and current economy. We raise beef, produce enough milk to rank 3rd in the nation, grow alfalfa, potatoes, onions, sugar beets, hops, and much, much more. Both water consumption and quality are part of the total water footprint of food production. Whether diverted from rivers through irrigation canals to a farm or pumped up from underground, it’s surprising how much water is needed to irrigate Idaho’s crops. Worldwide, agriculture accounts for 70% of water use. In Idaho, where agriculture is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artisan Cheesemakers &amp; The FDA Tangle</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/24/artisan-cheesemakers-the-fda-tangle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTESANO, Wash. – Northwest artisan cheese makers say the F.D.A. just doesn’t get their craft. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been getting tough on food companies after years of incidents like last August’s nation-wide egg recall. President Obama signed a new food safety law this month expanding the F.D.A.’s authority. But two Northwest cheesemakers have been especially hard hit by new requirements. Bryan Buckalew reports. Last year, Washington State inspectors found listeria at the Estrella Family Creamery in Montesano, Washington.  It’s a bacteria that causes flu-like symptoms that’s especially dangerous for pregnant women.  Owner Kelli Estrella says she cleaned up the listeria, but last September the FDA checked again.  After one swab came back positive, inspectors asked Estrella to order a broad recall.  She said no. Estrella argued most of her cheese wasn’t contaminated at all.  But a federal judge sent marshals to impound the cheese anyway. Kelli Estrella: “At this point, our attorney is hoping we can come to an agreement out of court. To be honest, I’ve very concerned that we are still too far away from coming to an agreement and will we be able to hold up and not go bankrupt by the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This was formerly the Smith&#8217;s Dairy,&#8221; says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl&#8217;s town square. &#8220;The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years.&#8221; This modest cream-colored bottling plant and the soft-spoken man who now runs it hardly look like players in a new, national agricultural movement. But they are. Stoltzfus, a lifelong dairyman, moved to Idaho in 1992 from Pennsylvania&#8217;s once pastoral dairy country. He still carries a hint of the rural East in his voice and a lasting love of the small dairy farms that dot his home state. &#8220;We do a non-homogenized whole milk, a 2 percent and a low-fat milk,&#8221; Stoltzfus says as he shows me around the pleasantly old-fashioned retail space that fronts his bottling plant. Behind the counter are 24 flavors of homemade ice cream. &#8220;We also are planning on trying to get into some cottage cheese and possibly some yogurt and do our own artisan cheese.&#8221; Most modern dairymen have gone a very different route than Stoltzfus. The Idaho dairy industry has grown explosively in the last decade. Fed in part by factory dairies fleeing more tightly regulated places like California, dairy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market &amp; Garden Report: Idaho Cheeses</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/10/08/market-garden-report-idaho-cheeses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] America is in the midst of a cheese making renaissance.  Small-scale, artisans have set up shop in virtually every state.  The Northwest is particularly well represented.  Oregon has over 20 professional cheese making businesses — Washington twice that.   Idaho has less than six so far.  But, as correspondent Guy Hand finds out in this installment of the Market &#38; Garden Report, Idaho cheeses are well worth seeking out. Stacie Ballard: We&#8217;re Ballard Family Dairy and Cheese.  We milk our own cows and make our own cheese. Hand: That’s Stacie Ballard here at the Capital City Public Market in Boise.  She and her husband Steve are two of Idaho’s most successful cheese makers. Hand: And I just heard that you guys are the best cheese makers in the state.  Is that correct?  (laughing)  Steve: Yea.  Stacie: That&#8217;s what we think.  Steve: We&#8217;re the only farmstead cheese manufacturer in the state and our cheese has lots of flavor and good taste and we think we are the best. Hand: The term farmstead means they raise the cows and make the cheese on the farm.  It’s a lot like estate bottled wine. Hand: And you&#8217;ve won a few awards over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market &amp; Garden Report: Raw Milk</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/07/23/market-garden-report-raw-milk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] 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 &#38; Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand  goes to the farmers’ market to talk to Idaho’s first licensed raw milk dairywoman (Woman at Market) So can you tell me about this? (Jantzi) It’s raw milk.  I have raw cow and goat milk. (Hand) You know we’ve been living in a processed, pasteurized world a long time when people ask “what’s raw milk.”  In the few weeks that Deborah Jantzi has been selling raw goat and cows milk at the Capital City Public Market, she’s been asked that question many times. (Jantzi) Raw milk comes straight from the cow or the goat.  We don&#8217;t do anything to it except filter it and flash cool it and bottle it.  We don&#8217;t do anything else, no processing to it. (Hand) We humans drank raw milk for millenia.  Only after Louis Pasteur discovered that pasteurization killed pathogens, did raw milk fall out of favor.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cow Power To Horsepower, making mileage on manure</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/02/13/cow-power-to-horsepower-making-mileage-on-manure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(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 most unconventional stimulus projects we’ve heard of. An institute at Western Washington University is getting half a million dollars to examine how to convert cow manure into horsepower. From Bellingham, correspondent Tom Banse explains. Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first poop-to-power generator in Washington State. Officially, the facility near Lynden, Washington is known as a methane digester. Manure from around a 1000 cows goes in one end. Then controlled decomposition yields methane gas. It’s burned like natural gas in an electric generator. The rub is, electricity sales haven’t been very profitable, or profitable at all says dairyman Vander Haak. Darryl Vander Haak: “We’re looking for alternative ways. The Northwest has too much hydropower to compete with. It would be easier to compete with the gas companies, I guess.” That’s why Vander Haak was open minded when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting CAFO Regulations in Idaho Counties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 have set up shop in several southern Idaho counties.  Along with milk, those factory dairies have produced environmental and social consequences that the small, often underfunded counties that host them have been struggling to address. In 2007, after Gooding County passed an ordinance tightening regulations on dairy CAFOs, the Idaho Dairymen&#8217;s Association and Idaho Cattle Association sued saying the county had no legal basis for the restrictive ordinance.  That case is now before the Idaho Supreme Court. In 2009, Edible Idaho looked into the issue of county regulation of the Idaho dairy industry. Now, the organization Milk Producers of Idaho is pushing for legislation that, if passed, would prevent counties from regulating the dairy industry altogether. Milk Producers says the industry is already sufficiently regulated through the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. Opponents of the legislation argue its just another attempt by a high-impact, [...]]]></description>
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