<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Northwest Food News &#187; dairy farm</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/tag/dairy-farm/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:48 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/02/the-raw-milk-deal-idaho-legitimizes-small-scale-raw-milk-producers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal milk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Bear Dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raw milk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raw milk laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raw milk raids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasured Sunrise Acres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=6988</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/02/the-raw-milk-deal-idaho-legitimizes-small-scale-raw-milk-producers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1202GH_RawMilk.mp3" length="1680679" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gm controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Right to Farm Bill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5391</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/0415GH_AgLegislation.mp3" length="1680679" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Tale of Two Food Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5350</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Water Footprint on Your Plate</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Arkle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water quality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5304</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>“Superbug” Book – How Agriculture Helped Create Drug Resistant MRSA</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/24/superbug-book-how-agriculture-helped-create-drug-resistant-mrsa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/24/superbug-book-how-agriculture-helped-create-drug-resistant-mrsa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antibiotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth enhancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In conversations about agriculture and health, I think the issues raised in the book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn Mckenna, need to be front and center, especially as it relates to CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) and the use of antibiotics as a growth enhancer in animals. The book explains: Food animals get many drugs for many reasons. They get them for disease treatment. They get them for disease prevention&#8230;.Food animals also get antibiotics for &#8220;growth promotion,&#8221; a metabolic mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming&#8230;.The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that, of those 29.5 million pounds of antimicrobials given to animals every year, only 2 million of them are actually intended to treat disease. The rest, almost 80% of all antibiotics used in the United States every year, are &#8220;non-therapeutic.&#8221; The process makes human-medicine experts furious. From their point of view, farmers are routinely practicing antibiotic misuse: giving drugs in the absence of disease, and giving them in such small doses that they kill off only vulnerable bacteria and leave the Darwinian battleground clear for the tough ones. Making it worse, many of the animal drugs are identical, or closely [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/24/superbug-book-how-agriculture-helped-create-drug-resistant-mrsa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>KBOO Community Radio’s Food Show: Dairy</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/21/kboo-community-radios-food-show-dairy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/21/kboo-community-radios-food-show-dairy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura McCandlish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Bones and Butter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheesemaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriele Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura McCandlish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miriam Widman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raw milk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reyna Simnegar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is KBOO community radio&#8217;s monthly Food Show. This installment focuses on dairy. This month is devoted to dairy. Listen to dairy breakfast suggestions from Paul Gerald, author of Breakfast in Bridgetownhttp://www.breakfastinbridgetown.com and hear an interview by Host Miriam Widman with Reyna Simnegar, author of Persian Food for the Non-Persian Bride about kosher dairy Persian foods and specialties for Purimhttp://www.kosherpersianfood.com/ There&#8217;s also a segment from householder Harriet Fasenfest about spring milk and a discussion about raw milk. Host Laura McCandlish hears the dairy industry&#8217;s pushback against raw milk from Friends of Family Farmers President Kendra Kimbirauskas. Then Laura takes us inside the new cheese-making lab Oregon State University in Corvallis. The lab will market a new OSU cheese to the public this fall. And Food Show Friend Marliese Franklin speaks with Gabriele Hamilton, author of Blood Bones and Butter &#8211; theInadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. There&#8217;s also a legislative update from Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, about funding for a bill to support school districts&#8217; purchases of local farm products. Other Useful Links: Info on FDA position on raw milk:  http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm232980.htm State Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem: http://www.leg.state.or.us/clem/ Oregon&#8217;s 100th Dairy Conference in April: http://www.oregondairy.org/conference.php]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/21/kboo-community-radios-food-show-dairy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/FoodShow3.mp3" length="36568944" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="s:125:&quot;a:5:{s:6:&quot;format&quot;;s:14:&quot;default-format&quot;;s:8:&quot;keywords&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;s:6:&quot;author&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;s:6:&quot;length&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;s:8:&quot;explicit&quot;;s:0:&quot;&quot;;}&quot;;" length="" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Artisan Cheesemakers &amp; The FDA Tangle</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/24/artisan-cheesemakers-the-fda-tangle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/24/artisan-cheesemakers-the-fda-tangle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheesemaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=4590</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/24/artisan-cheesemakers-the-fda-tangle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/012111BB_ArtisanCheese_web.mp3" length="1550836" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/012111BB_ArtisanCheese_web.mp3" length="1550836" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Stoltfus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buhl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheesemaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloverleaf dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=4526</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/0121GH_Cloverleaf.mp3" length="2398681" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Let The Year of Idaho Food Begin!</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/12/30/a-year-of-idaho-food-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/12/30/a-year-of-idaho-food-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011: The Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Hutchinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheesemaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm to table]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janie Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[locavore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Year of Idaho Food]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=4204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone, Here it is the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the Year of Idaho Food.  This is just an update on what’s happening as we start this campaign. History of the idea. In 2010, the Idaho Legislature passed a resolution, HCR59 IDAHO GROWN FOOD PRODUCTION &#8211; Stating the findings of the Legislature encouraging healthy, Idaho grown food production, distribution and consumption in the state of Idaho; encouraging support of Idaho farming, the consumption of Idaho grown foods and the promotion of greater food self-sufficiency within the state; and further encouraging Idahoans and Idaho businesses to celebrate and get to know their growers and to purchase and consume more food produced in or near Idaho.  http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/HCR059.htm Amy Hutchinson and I took the phrase about celebration to heart and were determined to breathe life into the resolution.  Since March of 2010, we have been planning a grassroots, statewide campaign to raise public awareness about the food we eat and to spark discussions about our food future. Intent of the Year of Idaho Food.  Today, most of us give little thought to the role food plays in our lives. Beyond the weekly trip to the grocery store, very few [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/12/30/a-year-of-idaho-food-update/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Local Food and Farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/11/08/local-food-and-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/11/08/local-food-and-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodity agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[direct-marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm to table]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[locavore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small-scale agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] A just released Zagat survey found that 68 percent of restaurant goers say they prefer locally grown food.  Sixty percent of those would pay more for that food.  That’s good news for the small, but increasing number of farmers and ranchers who grow products for local markets. In this month’s installment of Edible Idaho, producer Guy Hand finds out why Idaho farmers and ranchers are joining the local food movement. (Sounds at farmers’ market) Hand: Today, farmer Janie Burns is selling lamb, chicken and eggs at Boise’s farmers’ market.   She’s the first in her farming-family to become an outspoken advocate of the local food movement.  For Burns, the reasons are obvious. Burns: I think you only have to drive through rural Idaho to see the kind of hollowed out towns, the lack of wealth and you don’t have to be a genius to see that there’s just no money in rural Idaho.  Those rural economies that once depended on agriculture, their money is somewhere else. Hand: Burns says the local food movement not only offers consumers fresh food; it offers struggling farmers and ranchers a way off a poorly-paid, commodity-driven tread mill. Burns: The farmers are captive [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/11/08/local-food-and-farmers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1108GH_Farmers.mp3" length="3639051" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

