Lucky Linda Clothbound Cheddar, made by Alise Sjostrom of Redhead Creamery, is aged over six months in aging rooms beneath the creamery’s on-farm store.
State health and agriculture officials opposed the bill, noting that unpasteurized milk can carry bacteria, like E. coli and salmonella, that cause serious illnesses.
Mike Clemens, who farms at Wimbledon, North Dakota, has a hand in the program, serving a four-year term on the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors.
Jill Salmen, who operates an organic dairy in Minnesota, shared what she has learned about the health of organic-raised animals during the Northern Plains Food and Farming Conference.
Canada has tightly controlled supplies of dairy, eggs and poultry since the 1970s, restricting how much farmers can produce and limiting imports through onerous tariffs.
Wallace “Wally” Knock of Willow Lake, South Dakota, chairman of the Clark County Commission, said his community is welcoming livestock development – despite outside ownership – because livestock is the only thing that offers opportunity in his rural, agricultural economy.
Nature Energy plans to operate plants in Minnesota and Wisconsin that would use manure from dairy farms and other organic waste to create natural gas for heating homes and other uses. A subsidiary of the Shell petroleum company is buying Denmark-based Nature Energy for $2 billion
Cass-Clay Creamery recently delivered more than 24,000 units of Giving Cow, a shelf-stabilized milk, to the Great Plains Food Bank — part of an announced donation of 82,000 units.
Mychal Wilmes recalls the personalities and problems he encountered with milk cows at his own farm and his neighbors', as well as the now known to be false tale of the cow that started the Chicago fire.
